Does your dog like to jump up?
Well in this video I'm gonna give you 4 steps to stop your dog unwanted jumping.
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Do you know that jumping up is one of the most common dog unwanted behaviour?
That's why I really wanted to make this video to really give you tips to help you train your dog
not to jump up and make sure to stay until the end because I'm gonna share with you some
common mistakes that people make when they are actually trying to train their dog not
to jump up.
But first do you know why dogs actually jump up?
Well it's very easy it's just because they want to greet you and come at your face level
for that reason because licking the face is the way that dogs greet people.
So the first step that you want to take when actually training your dog not to jump up
is actually to teach him an alternative behaviour.
Because if you want your dog to stop jumping up you have to tell him to do something else.
What's the easiest thing to actually ask your dog instead of jumping up?
Well to sit and stay or lie down and stay so that's the first thing that you need to
teach your dog a very solid sit or lie down and stay.
And if your dog actually doesn't know yet how to sit or lie down and stay I made a video
about it a few weeks ago so make sure to check the link at the top the screen right now. Second
thing if your dog actually jumps up on you I want you to react in a certain way and this
way is actually not to react.
So basically I just want you to turn into a tree and ignore your dog, look away, cross
your arms around your body, yawn and I actually made a video about those calming signals last
week and you can actually check that video, the link is at the top the screen right now,
because it will really help you how to react and interact with your dog in different situations
and learn how your dog actually is trying to communicate with you and communicate with
him the same way.
There's also an exercise that you can do with your dog to work with him on not jumping up.
And basically you ask him to sit, you hold a treat at shoulder level, and you take it
down closer to your dog nose, and all the way down your dog is not supposed to jump
and if he doesn't jump you reward him and if he actually jumps too bad you remove the
treat and take it away.
See Finn there was really good he was just waiting for the treat to go down and that's
why I rewarded him.
The last step, the bulletproof step is actually if you have visitors and invite people over
because a lot of people usually struggle when there are people coming in and their dogs
are jumping up on them.
If you have people over the first thing I want you to do if you're just training your
dog not to jump up it's actually to exercise your dog before, so you basically can play
or go for a long walk with your dog just before the time you know people are coming because
your dog energy levels will be lower already so it will be easier to actually calm your
dog down when people are coming in.
And I want you to tell the people the guests that you are inviting that you are actually
training your dog and explain them the different steps and actually not to pay attention or
not to even greet your dog until you say so.
So what are you going to do?
You're going to invite people over, they're going to ring the doorbell, your dog more
than likely is going to be all excited and want to jump up.
I want you to ask your dog to sit and stay.
If he sits and stays patiently that's when I want you to ask the guest to actually go
and say hi to your dog and greet him and reward him with a treat so give your guests a few
treats as well in advance.
Actually you can even put some treats in a box at the door you know outside the door
so your guests can take a few treats and be ready to actually train your dog with you.
But if your dog doesn't sit and wait patiently until your guest is coming towards him to
greet him, then too bad you put the treats away and he doesn't get rewarded.
As I mentioned at the beginning there's a few common mistakes that people do when they
are actually trying to train their dog not to jump.
First one is that they let their puppy jump on them but when he is growing and actually
getting bigger they don't want their puppy to jump up anymore because he is too big.
Do you think your dog understand that?
No so it's very important actually to start training your dog not to jump up as soon as
possible, when he is a pup and actually don't reinforce the jumping at all.
So I know it's tough and I know if you're checking this video you probably didn't do
that but it's very important to try and not do that because your dog doesn't understand.
Now I'm not saying that it's not ok to let your dog jump up at all.
Sometimes I let my dogs jump up on me but I actually put that behaviour on cue so they
know that it's ok to jump up on me when I'm actually asking them to do so.
And it's so much easier to train your dog to have a behaviour on cue than actually to
try and get rid of a behaviour that you didn't even want initially.
And the other very important thing as always in dog training is consistency.
So basically everybody in your house must have the same behaviour when your dog is jumping
up because if you're the only one actually ignoring your dog when he is jumping up but
your partner or your kids or your visitors are actually greeting him and being happy
when your dog is jumping up well it's going to reinforce the jumping.
So you really really really need to ask everybody, be on the same track, have the same behaviour
when your dog is jumping up.
And it might take a bit of time I'm not gonna lie before your dog stops jumping up especially
if he has been doing that for a while and you actually were ok with it and not ignoring.
But I can guarantee you you have to be patient because if you give in once, even once, because
it's a learnt behaviour that he was doing before then that one time is going to reinforce
him on continuing to jump because what he wants when he's jumping up is actually to
greet you to have your attention so if it actually does work the one time and it was
working before he's gonna offer and offer and offer that behaviour.
The first step that you need to do as I said earlier when training your dog not to jump
up you need to train your dog to actually have another behaviour the best one is actually
to sit or lie down and stay so again make sure to check the video I made about this
first and I will see you in that video.
Bye