A dog that jumps up at visitors can be highly maddening for his owner and worrying for their guests. To straighten out this behavior it will help to understand a bit about what has happened in your dog's mind while he's energetically greeting your friends and family at the door.
Your dog's training process is not difficult. Your dog will basically repeat anything that rewards him in any way. As dog owners we need to keep this under consideration all though both training sessions and day-to-day life with our dog. With this training process under consideration we will start to strengthen the behaviors that we might like the dog to repeat by rewarding them. We will also start to recognise the unhelpful behaviour that we would like to stop, and learn not to reward it.
Another thing not to forget is that your dog may see the most unusual thing as reward. Pushing a dog off when he jumps up is physical contact, so can be viewed as a reward. Ignoring or turning ones back on a jumping dog is better, you are in effect absolutely ignoring the behavior.
It sounds straightforward put this way and I'm the first ready to admit that when the dog is jumping all over visitors it's tough to think straight. It is often better to teach your dog a different and more useful behaviour. An example being rather than him getting excited and jumping up, teach him that to sit nicely in front of the visitor will earn him the reward he's looking for. That can be done by continually asking your dog to sit for a treat in front of you and rewarding instantly. Asking visitors to adopt the same technique should succeed in reforming your dog's unhelpful habit.
There's no use learning how to train your dog to sit nicely in front of visitors if you don't time the exercise properly. Your dog could easily learn that he can jump up and have the reward of touch (pushing off) then receive a second reward for sitting. It is crucial to request the sit instead of the jump, therefore avoiding the jump altogether.
Your dog's training process is not difficult. Your dog will basically repeat anything that rewards him in any way. As dog owners we need to keep this under consideration all though both training sessions and day-to-day life with our dog. With this training process under consideration we will start to strengthen the behaviors that we might like the dog to repeat by rewarding them. We will also start to recognise the unhelpful behaviour that we would like to stop, and learn not to reward it.
Another thing not to forget is that your dog may see the most unusual thing as reward. Pushing a dog off when he jumps up is physical contact, so can be viewed as a reward. Ignoring or turning ones back on a jumping dog is better, you are in effect absolutely ignoring the behavior.
It sounds straightforward put this way and I'm the first ready to admit that when the dog is jumping all over visitors it's tough to think straight. It is often better to teach your dog a different and more useful behaviour. An example being rather than him getting excited and jumping up, teach him that to sit nicely in front of the visitor will earn him the reward he's looking for. That can be done by continually asking your dog to sit for a treat in front of you and rewarding instantly. Asking visitors to adopt the same technique should succeed in reforming your dog's unhelpful habit.
There's no use learning how to train your dog to sit nicely in front of visitors if you don't time the exercise properly. Your dog could easily learn that he can jump up and have the reward of touch (pushing off) then receive a second reward for sitting. It is crucial to request the sit instead of the jump, therefore avoiding the jump altogether.
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