You're fighting the inevitable!

[juliefurry]

Ok so I have been having some...problems with Mark's friend's kids being lax with Holly and letting her do whatever she wants. Lately they have gotten into the habit of letting Holly jump all over them when she goes to greet them. I keep telling them they can not show her any attention if she jumps they have to turn their backs until she settles down and stops jumping. Well they NEVER do that . Finally today I had enough of them doing this because Holly yanked the leash right out of my hand and caused me to slam my fingers in the door. So I turn around and there is the daughter ENCOURAGING Holly to jump on her. So I told her "don't show her any attention for jumping! I do not want a 100 lb dog thinking it's ok for her to jump on people and if you let her do it she'll think she can do it to anyone." Well the daughter just looks at me and says "Julie you're fighting the inevitable she's going to jump on people." Anyway I picked up Holly immediately after she said that and brought her downstairs. I never pick Holly up either so the girl knew that there was something wrong. I'm going to have to have a serious talk with the kid's father and let him know that he's gonna have to schedule a meeting so I can tell these kids exactly what they have to do with Holly and if they can not do those things than they can not be around her until they can. I don't want to but I am really trying with her and I just feel that everytime they encourage jumping or allow her on the furniture they are erasing all the training that I have been putting into her. That statement she made "Julie, you're just fighting the inevitable" REALLY P***** me off. I don't know why I think it's because I was having a horrible day all day today but I swear you could probably see the steam shooting out of my ears when she said that I was so mad!

 

[bubbatd]

I'm with you !! I have a neighbor who arrives at the door with treats for Ollie . As he is new here , and he is a jumper for visitors , it's a real problem ! Granted , he needs some serious obedience training which I haven't done . With me , he is a sweet laid back dog . When she rings the door bell and he sees her , Ollie goes crazy !! I tell him no jump and ask her to please not encourage it . She lets him anyway and gives him treats ! I know I have to be firm with both of them . She should hand me the treats ... let me settle him down and then let her feed him . So far it hasn't worked !!

 

[juliefurry]

I have been quite firm with them in the past and just recently they stopped trying to give her attention when she is going out to go potty (after she pottied on the floor because of them and I refused to clean it up). I just hate having to say "if you can't do this you can't play with Holly" because being around as many people as possible is good for Holly but being taught that jumping up and being on furniture (another thing they allow her to do that I do not like one bit) is not good for Holly. I almost told the girl off but really had to bite my tongue since she is my only babysitter. I mean I have told her repeatedly what to do when giving Holly attention and she constantly underminds me and encourages jumping and furniture climbing. I really want to nip the problem before it gets too bad. I don't want a one year old berner thinking she can be on our bed and jumping up to greet us (or the kids :yikes.

 

[Renee750il]

Straight up, Julie . . . Holly is your dog and your rules go. Period. End of discussion and no negotiations.

 

[PFC1]

Man, I feel for you. You are up against a tough situation because Berner pups are so darn cute and loveable. We went through that, too. "I know you don't mind if he jumps up on you, but he will be 120 lbs when he grows up. . . . ."

I have been there with the hand slam, too. We were at the dog park, and we had entered the gated vestibule. Some jack-ass opened the inside gate while I was trying to disconnect the leash from my Berner's flat collar. The park rules clearly state one owner in the entry at a time for a reason. My Berner bolted through the gate, and made a hard left, pulling the leash taught against the left fence post, and my hand (which was still in the loop end of the leash) shot straight out directly into the fence post. (Did I mention that full grown Berners are strong?) It sill hurts. It was early summer when that happened. I am sure I cracked a bone.

 

[MomOf7]

I had Red trained not to jump up on people. That is untill we sent him to a supposed pro trainer. GAHHH. Everytime we see the pro at a competition he encourages Red to jump on him! I will be in mid NO and the deed is done. Sigh
I feel your pain!

 

[juliefurry]

Man, I feel for you. You are up against a tough situation because Berner pups are so darn cute and loveable. We went through that, too. "I know you don't mind if he jumps up on you, but he will be 120 lbs when he grows up. . . . ."

I have been there with the hand slam, too. We were at the dog park, and we had entered the gated vestibule. Some jack-ass opened the inside gate while I was trying to disconnect the leash from my Berner's flat collar. The park rules clearly state one owner in the entry at a time for a reason. My Berner bolted through the gate, and made a hard left, pulling the leash taught against the left fence post, and my hand (which was still in the loop end of the leash) shot straight out directly into the fence post. (Did I mention that full grown Berners are strong?) It sill hurts. It was early summer when that happened. I am sure I cracked a bone.

Holly already is strong! If she really gets the ambition to do something, or go somewhere and I'm not completely ready for her to go running off she can pull me sometimes. The boy now is getting better at having her jump on him because he doesn't like it anymore so the other day he asked me "how to I get her to stop jumping on me?" I was able to give him a quick lesson on how to get her to stop jumping and so far he has been following what I have said. Hopefully the daughter will get bored of it too soon but I think she's allowing Holly to jump and stuff because I'm telling her NOT to let her.

I had Red trained not to jump up on people. That is untill we sent him to a supposed pro trainer. GAHHH. Everytime we see the pro at a competition he encourages Red to jump on him! I will be in mid NO and the deed is done. Sigh
I feel your pain!

It doesn't help much that whenever we take her to petstores or anywhere the employees and people shopping allow her to jump on them too, even after I ask them to make her sit before she gets attention. That's ok though, I got Holly back today. She kept jumping on people so I bought her a pair of reindeer antlers . That's not going to help with the jumping but atleast now I have found a way to embarrass her like she does to me by jumping all over everyone.