Jumping up. Teach your dog what you want them to do instead of jumping up first!
Move away from your dog and click him as he comes towards you BEFORE he jumps.
Then put a treat on the floor so he will anticipate the reward coming from the
ground and not above as he figures out what you want. You can delay the click to
after the dog reaches you and calmly stands instead of jumping. If the dog
were to jump up simply ignore the dog and take a step to the side to get their
paws off of you. Here you can see I'm moving away from Bogart and as he comes
towards me I'm going to click and then feed from the ground near my feet. The point
behind this is teaching him what I do want him to do instead of jumping. Which
is coming towards me and stand calmly. Now that you've taught your dog what you
do want them to do when they come towards you which is to keep all 4 feet
on the floor now when you ignore them when they jump up they have an
alternative behavior that they can offer which is the one that you've just
reinforced. Here you can see that when I ignored Bogart jumping up on me he
offered a behavior that we'd reinforced before which was a down and then later on
he offers a sit instead of jumping up.
Proofing. Proof your dog to not jump up in all
situations by setting up training sessions in which you do all the things
that might cause your dog to jump up. You can have your dog on leash and click
them while someone else does jump provoking behaviors or work on your own.
You will at first be clicking as the person does the behavior and when your
dog is succeeding clicking after the dog has stood calmly during the distraction.
Set your dog up to succeed. If your dog is becoming too excitable go back a step
to doing much calmer movements or just standing still. Here I'm doing some
proofing with a goldendoodle puppy named Murphy I'm clicking as I open the door
rather than seeing what will happen if I just waltz on in.
Since he's doing so well I'm going to make the greeting more exciting.
"Oh my goodness what a cute puppy! Of course you're going to be perfect in the video..." of course.
That's to prevent the dog getting aroused and jumping
if someone acts fearfully. "Oh I have this cool toy!" Good boy!
S o what you would do when guests come over and you don't have a clicker but
you grab a handful of treats. Then they come in and you can just drop treats
If you are saying hi to the guests you can drop treats as you are talking to them.
"Nice to meet you"
As they pet him you can just keep putting the treats down on the ground. Make sure
that you don't get into the habit of ignoring a jump and then immediately
reinforcing the dog for sitting is they can learn to first get your attention by
jumping and then doing the behavior you like. Here are some tips .1 - Teach your
dog what you want them to do instead of jumping up first. 2 - Don't reinforce
jumping up with attention 3 - Proof by creating situations your dog will
want to jump up in, so the dog generalizes the behavior. 4- Prevent
jumping when you're not in the mood to train your dog by having your dog on
leash or in his pen.