Do you have a dog that loves to jump?
You think you've tried everything to prevent that jumping from happening? Well,
I just spent some time with a dog that thinks jumping is a sport.
And I tried something that you may not have seen before.
I want you to check it out. I'm instructor, Steve, welcome back to McCann Dogs
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four-legged family member. I was head instructing one of my classes last night,
and I have this great student named Emily, and she has a dog named Coulson.
Now Coulson is a Husky. He is a big strong dog and Coulson loves to jump.
And Emily's working really,
really hard to give Coulson the best start that she can in life.
And Coulson actually has some extra expectation on him because not only does he
need to be a family dog in their house,
but Emily's a mechanic and owns an auto repair shop.
So Coulson not only has to greet family members and friends,
but he also has to learn to greet customers without jumping up.
And I've got a new idea that I'm gonna try out I'm Emily and Coulson.
So we're gonna find out, are two leashes better than one.
Jumping is one of those behaviors that is really self-rewarding to a lot of
dogs. And you know, dogs are rough and tumble.
And oftentimes the things that we do to address the jumping can actually
reinforce it a little bit. You know, oftentimes the dogs jump.
If he were to jump up me and I give him a push off, he's like, oh my gosh,
that's amazing. That's exactly what I wanted. I want that physical interaction.
So what I need to do is I need to be able to give him a different job to do. Um,
instead of letting him know he shouldn't jump. Now absolutely.
There's a time when I'm gonna tell him not to jump.
And right now he's very interested in my shoes. He's a pretty excited guy.
Aren't you buddy, but I want to give him a different behavior.
Now I'm gonna do a couple of things with him.
I've got his leash on him right now,
but in talking to Emily who owns little Coulson here, um,
he's pretty good around the house until she goes outside.
So we're gonna work some strategies around that. Now I've got his leash.
I'm gonna actually put a different line on him that I'm gonna suggest we wear
around the house. And you know,
you've heard us talk about these house lines before.
This can be really the thing that lets him know,
he shouldn't jump in the first place. So I'm gonna clip that on.
And because he is pretty a busy guy and he is also a big strong guy. Hi buddy,
how are you? That's exciting. I'm gonna keep his leash on,
but what I'm actually gonna use to prevent him from jumping is that line on the
ground. So I'm gonna have the leash gathered up a little bit,
but I'm gonna get my foot on this line and I'm simply gonna walk a little closer
to him. Now,
my goal is that he starts to jump and figures out that he can't
because the line prevents him from jumping off off. Good,
good boy. Leave that off, off. Good off. Good.
Now I don't really care what he does instead of jumping,
but I don't want him to jump. Okay. Now the benefit of doing this is twofold.
One. He corrects himself in perfect timing.
He bumps up and hits the unleash and he realizes you can't get anywhere.
But what I need to do now is say, here's what I want you to do instead here,
buddy. Come here. Sit. Good, sit good.
Now this line under my foot is simply an emergency brake. Okay? Um,
that's not the thing. That's pinning him to the ground in the sit right now.
He's getting distracted by some other things,
but what I want it to be is the brake that stops the jumping. So again,
I'm gonna give him another job to do good sit. Excellent boy. Very nice.
So I'm gonna yes. And reward that. Sit. Good. Sit. Excellent boy. Very nice.
Good sit. Hey, bud I'm up here? Excellent. Yes. Good boy. Good.
Now you'll notice my voice is calm. My demeanor is calm with him.
I'm not screaming and yelling. If I'm gonna pet him,
it's gonna be nice calm pets. Good boy. Very nice. Every time I move him,
his excitement level comes up and I'm doing that intentionally.
Now what I'm doing is spending a lot of time, keeping him mellow,
keeping him low and a short period of time, letting him be a little higher.
Good boy.
So my focus on the mellow times allows me to build much more value for him
holding position and being calm versus letting him get too high.
Cuz I guarantee if I move too much. Okay buddy. Good. If I move too much,
I'm too crazy.
He's gonna start to get jumpier and jumpier and jumpier and jumpier. Good. Off.
Sit. Good set.
As you can see,
Coulson is starting to get this and the wheels are starting to turn and he's
starting to figure out, wait a minute.
Maybe I shouldn't jump on this person and we're making another behavior more
valuable, but just because he is getting it a few times,
doesn't mean it's a solidified behavior and don't be surprised in your training
when you do get some wins,
but then things tend to go off the rails a little bit.
So have a look at how I readjust this and again, help Coulson be right.
Good. Off. So we're getting a little excited cuz I pet him off.
So I'm gonna step a little closer on that line. Hey, back off, off. Sit.
Good boy. Good off. Sit. Sit.
Good. So he didn't sit. So I'm gonna place him. Good boy. Good.
That's a good boy. Good job. Who's a good guy. Good.
Now I'm gonna see if this is gonna get him excited again.
Because last time it was the petting that got him a little worked up in the
moment I stopped. He was excited. So I'm gonna go right back to that. Sit. Good.
Sit. Yes. Good sit. Good boy.
Now my right foot is adjusting this leash tension all the time,
but that is my little emergency brake.
That's helping prevent him from jumping and help me with that.
That real real, perfectly timed. Correction. Good boy. Hey right here. Good off.
Yes. Good boy. Good job. Good. Good off. Good.
Are you ready? Good off. Yes. Good boy. Good. Ready? Except woah off.
You caught me off. Good boy. Good off sit.
Yes. Good. Excellent boy.
So because you're so good with me being stable and stationary,
I'm now kind of ramping things up a little bit.
I'm making myself a little bit more exciting to proof through his understanding.
And this is where he's starting to struggle now cuz I'm now more exciting.
Again. He says, Hey exciting things. I jump on because I love jumping in again.
He's a super friendly guy. He's an outgoing guy.
There's not a mean bone in his body, but I want him to know that he shouldn't.
Jump. It's one thing for me to do this with Coulson.
I've done this with thousands of dogs. I'm a professional dog trainer,
but it's another thing for Emily to do that.
So now that we're actually getting some wins,
I'm gonna hand the keys to Emily and I wanna see how she can do in the same
situation and have Coulson greet me.
Now I'm gonna be like that person on the street who goes, oh my gosh,
what a cute dog. Aren't you amazing. I wanna come pet your dog.
And that's when I'm gonna you work through.
So you're just gonna remind him off and you're gonna remind him sit.
So I'm gonna come in. Good boy. Good job. Good. Excellent, good job. Yes.
Good boy. Reward that. He's making stellar choices right now.
This is really hard for him.
And if you think back to what we saw in class just a little bit ago,
he would not have done that same thing. In fact,
we've got lots of footage of him. Every time I walked in, woo life is awesome.
I wanna have a party.
So just being consistent in this particular moment is starting to plant the seed
is he needs to sit. So talk to him again. Remind him sit. Good. Sit. Good. Sit.
Good. Good. Yes. Good.
Now he's also doing something very specific here that I wanna highlight.
Coulson is absolutely able to look at me as I come in,
but he's choosing to look at me and then immediately choosing to look back at
Emily. And that's the thing I want Emily to acknowledge.
She's doing a great job of. Yes.
Then rewarding that because I want him to make that choice. I want him to say,
okay, I see that person, but my person is the thing I wanna pay attention to.
And now we're gonna see if I can reach it and pet him. Okay.
Which let's face it an hour ago was a pretty hard thing for him to do.
So you're gonna remind him set. Good job. Good. Good, good boy. Excellent.
Good. Yes. Good sit. Remind him. Sit. Yes. Good boy. Good job.
Excellent. Very good. Good job. Yes. Good. So that moment right there.
Did you guys see that? He looked at me and directly looked back at Emily.
That's the thing I want to tell him. He's right. And doing so.
You can see Emily and Coulson did a really amazing job today and we've sort of
ended on a win. And that's how I, I always want to take my dog training.
I want my dogs to understand how to be right. And I want to end with that.
And it's really important from this point forward that Emily and Coulson not
have the rehearsal of jumping up, jumping up,
being a self-rewarding behavior the moment your dog gets to do it.
It's gonna set all this work back that we did.
And just because we had this win here in this particular situation,
and we're gonna end on that, on that success does not mean our training is done.
We have to take the same approach in every situation to help Coulson understand
that he shouldn't jump in the first place.
If you're dealing with a dog who jumps up,
you're probably dealing with a dog that also pulls on the leash.
And if you like what I did in this video,
you won't believe what we did in this video to correct pulling on-leash.
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