Jumping

[maggiemae]

O.K., so how long does it take before Maggie will begin to learn not to jump up on people we meet when walking. She heels fine, but as soon as she sees a dog, human, etc., she jumps up on them. Especially people. I have put my foot half way up on the leash and make her not jump up. Is there a time when she will do this by herself? She is 1 year old.
Driving me nuts! Will she ever calm down?

[Spyglass Sally]

Buddy used to be real bad about that too. But we've been working with him that when he jumps up we say "no jump" and pull his leash so he comes down or hold him down with our hand. Sometimes when he gets excited he tries this on me in the house too. I carry a little can of altoid gum, with some pennies in it. I shake it and say "no jump". He hates that and it has been helpful too in breaking the jump habit.

He's 8 months old and still will jump some but this has really helped. I know what you mean about calming down! He's a little wiggle butt when he gets excited. Trying to get him to calm down is like nailing jello to a tree!

[Brian J. Sabel]

We have the same trouble with Scout, of course. We use the "off" command and turn our backs to her when she jumps. We've had mixed success. One thing we've been working on is that we don't acknowledge her until she has calmed down. She's starting to figure out that when we come home she needs to sit nicely before we will greet her. I think it might be an extension of dominance training. We'll see if it does any good!

[AussieGirl]

Originally Posted by Brian J. Sabel

One thing we've been working on is that we don't acknowledge her until she has calmed down. She's starting to figure out that when we come home she needs to sit nicely before we will greet her.

We do this and it works really well, we do not give her any attention for about 5 mins when we get home (it is sooo hard to do but well worth the results). I tell everyone who comes to walk straight past her, no eye contact - pretend she is invisible and those who have listened and do it consistently have no issues with her jumping - but there are a few who can't seem to resist the wiggle butt and do acknowledge her and she jumps on them it really is about training the people more than the dog sometimes.

[maggiemae]

Yes, thank you guys. I will try the noisy thing and ignoring her. It was hard training her with new people, because we rarely got company. Now we have made more friends and we have to get her in line so we can have company over without the problems.

[Brian J. Sabel]

You may find that you also have to train your friends. People naturally respond to the boxer's enthusiasm and start playing with the dog before she's earned the attention. If I know people are coming over I talk to them first and let them know that we're teaching Scout not to jump and instruct them to do exactly what you do when you first come into your dog's presence. That helps to prevent a friend undoing all your hard work! :P

[Boxer100]

Our boxer loves to jump, don't they all? He doesn't jump on strangers though, only us. He jumps only on people he knows well or who are friendly toward him and want to play. We tried to teach him not to jump and it worked for a while until some of us in the family started allowing him to jump. I didn't, I swear. lol

[Boxerdad]

Originally Posted by Brian J. Sabel

We have the same trouble with Scout, of course. We use the "off" command and turn our backs to her when she jumps. We've had mixed success. One thing we've been working on is that we don't acknowledge her until she has calmed down. She's starting to figure out that when we come home she needs to sit nicely before we will greet her. I think it might be an extension of dominance training. We'll see if it does any good!

Yep saw that in an episode of it's me or the dog lol. It works with us ok, but when a stranger shows up all bets are off! I try to tell people, turn around and ignore him but damn his butt won't stop shaking haha! It's like their whole body wags
We are working on it though.

[daisy'smom]

I have to admit that Georgie's jumping is my fault. When I have been gone Georgie gets so excited and I feed into that by talking in a real high voice "there's my Georgie girl". I need to stop because before jumping was not a problem and now she is doing it. It's hard because I am just as glad to see her when I get home. Now she is starting to jump at other times also. Gotta quit spoiling her.

[maggiemae]

Well, she seems to be getting better, bit by bit. When I see someone walking, she will try to jump and I say "No", the people usually say, "Oh, its O.K." So I have to explain to them its not O.K, with other people so I have to be consistent with her.

AGH~