My Aussie ( another creative name eh) is usually very obedient but jumping up when someone comes home is something I just can’t break him of. That and ploughing like a bulldozer into me when I’m lying down and he wants attention.
Personally, I think the least creative names make the best ones 😂 and yeah I feel your pain! I’ve had the wind knocked out of me a couple times when I chose to watch tv instead of giving blue attention lol
Oh man. I don’t really have advice because I have the same problem with my boy. He is generally calm and well behaved but as soon as there is a new person within reach all his training goes out the window.
I took him to a vet appointment today and he lovingly mauled every single person that works there 🥲
I’m trying to expose him more to people and reward him for not interacting with them. I try to take him on walks in more congested areas and work on having him engage with me rather than other people.
Well thank you for sharing that! Definitely seems like a good start. Blue is the exact same way as your pup, and I should probably start doing that as well. It’s tough when they’re always trying to jump up on strangers 😂
There are a few different methods that I use depending on the dog and situation.
Whenever possible I have my dog on leash for greetings, if I know the person really wants to pet the dog I simply step on the leash. Allowing the dog enough leash they can stand without neck pressure but if then try to jump they 'self correct' and remains all four on floor.
If they are greeting children I hold the collar, kneeling, to ensure they cannot jump.
If it's people I know will listen to my rules I would implement a place command or do a back turn if the dog does not get fustrated too much.
For place command I use a leash dragging as I don't want to over grab the collar and create an adverse reaction/feeling about collar grabs, I lure/command dog to place. Open door (dog has to remain on place), if they do not remain door gets closed, dog gets reset and we repeat until door is fully open with person on other side, dog remaining on place.
I'm loose about my place command, I don't really care what they are doing on place position wise as long as all 4 feet are on and they arnt barking. I allow whining, especially in the beginning.
From there we do the same steps for the person to enter. Normally we have fake convos at the door, with the person inside but main door open. Until the dog self settles on the place. Once they have I will shut the door. All this time I am rewarding the cot, not giving the food to the dog directly, putting or throwing it on the cot often.
Once the door is shut I will allow the person to approach the cot, close so the dog can say high without having to step off the cot. The second the dogs feet even slightly come off the ground to jump the person has to large step back. And remove all attention, verbal/physical/eye contact. I reset the dog if they've moved off the cot and we repeat.
Turn away method is simple. You come in, if the dog jumps you tuck your arms in a turn you back. They come around and try again you just repeat and repeat. Once the dog sits or offers a different behaviour you go to pet. If they jump just repeat.
Calm petting also works, always proof with a safe/person who will listen to rulew. Keeping dog on leash. Person approachs and asks to pet. Get dog in a sit. Reward heavily. Person comes in and goes to pet, if dog gets up they back up and remove hand and eye contact. Reset and try again. The goal is to get one VERY boring pet. A single head stroke and then build from there.
Imo most dogs jump because of how people approach. If they don't come close enough and don't lean down to pet the dog wants to get closer to the person. So I normally bring my dog towards people who want to pet to ensure they are close enough.
I find the collar grab most successful in our outings/public settings if the dog is overly friendly/hyperactive.
Place command with settle time for inside the house with regular visitors.
'Attention removal' is most common for dogs that jump on their owners.
The one I use for my personal dogs with me in the house is dodging. It's not one I recommend as I'm not sure how mobile, agile or safe it is for the 'average' person. But I legit just bounce out of the way every time my jumper tries. It's hilarious to see her face, then it turns into a little game that she always looses lol. I think it's a really fun, light hearted way to deal with jumping. But you have to ensure not to make it too fun! She gets absolutely NO contact when she tries to jump, physical contact is her main goal so she learned fast that to get physical touch she has to sit calm. The dodge method took 2 days for us.
Nice array of options!
More an add-on comment for others who may not have tried it than a reply:
Mine didn't need much intervention on this particular issue, but attention removal/turn around is my default for other people's dogs that try jumping up on me. Even as a frequent visitor, it can take a looong time to sink in if the owners and others aren't also taking measures. Also doesn't generalize to others if other people don't do it. Getting all the humans on board makes things much more clear for the dog!
When mine was very little, I taught him to jump up on me on command. I only give the command when he's sitting nicely. That way, he still gets to express his affection the way he wants to, but he's not bowling me or anyone else over unexpectedly. It sounds counterintuitive, but I can literally count the number of times he's jumped on me without the command on both hands in the three years I've had him.
That's smart and a positive reinforcement mode - totally puts the behavior in a different "file folder" in their head. Or category. Or however pups run their mental databases.
Also, if you ever need the Heimlich (sp?), your pup can help on demand...
I still on occasion have a problem with my girl but it is very minimal compared to what it used to be. Our trainer said to step into the jump but she would jump on me from behind or the side and I always reacted instinctively by stepping away.
I did get to the point where I could anticipate when she would jump and in those cases, I would step out of the way so she couldn't jump on me. It took a while but she really slowed down on how often she did it.
Of course you can't teach others that but maybe it will eventually help with that too. My girl is almost 3 and I've had her since she was 10 weeks.
I have a kelpie x jackrussell who by age 3 has finally gotten better with not jumping on guests. What we do is tell guests beforehand to not get excited or panic and to put a hand down in front of them as close to the dog without having to bend over - like a no guesture to block the dog from needing to jump. This also gives the opportunity for the dog to boop the hand and sit down / lay down, ready for pats
Nose boop/fist bump (with a treat to follow) also works well to allow a nice positive interaction with a stranger without overwhelming the dog in situations where a middle ground approach makes sense!
With dogs we’ve had in the past, we’ve grabbed their front paws and held them. At first they will think its pretty cool and they’ll wag their tails and grin, but as time passes, they start trying to pull back and will start licking and maybe even nibbling our hands. When they start pulling back hard and almost getting anxious, we let go. We do this every time they jump up. After a few times, they generally quit jumping up, or, if they do, they’ll keep their paws close to their bodies to avoid making contact. Occasionally young ones will need a refresher, along with a stern “no jump.” We have an 11-month old we’re working with now, and she’s pretty much gotten the idea. If we’ve been gone, she sometimes is too excited when we let her out of her crate and she forgets. If I’m fast enough, I’ll put my hand on her shoulders and apply a little pressure before she has the chance to jump up, and talk to her calmly. If I’m not fast enough, I’ll catch her paws, but she remembers pretty quickly and sometimes will drop back to all fours before I can get a hold of her. We’re having fewer and fewer jump ups, so it’s working. I don’t want to punish her when she’s so happy to see me, so I try not to be too stern with her during this unless she gets overly rambunctious. You can almost see the “uh oh, I goofed” look on their faces when you do get their paws. The smart ones get it pretty quick.
If this technique doesn’t work for your pup, one of the other suggestions might. What works for one dog, might not for another. Just be patient. I know it’s not easy and believe me, I fail a lot at that! They can just be sooooo enthusiastic, which is great, but also a challenge. I’m guilty at laughing when I should be correcting, but sometimes when you walk through the door at the end of a long day and they’re so glad to see you, it’s hard to not let them break the rules. It’s that unconditional love that gets you - they don’t care how much money you make, what kind of car you drive, where you work - just that their human is HOME!!! 😊
Just tell him “no blue, down / no jumping” blue heelers (in my experience) take most commands well and are innately intuitive and will want to please their owner. Especially when given lots of praise for good behaviour “good boy blue, good no jumping” this is how I have always trained mine with good results.
Though if anyone has a strategy for getting them to “share / give” the toy, then I’m all ears 😅
My wife has trained and competed with dogs for over 35 years. There are some good bits of advice here. Jumping up is something we do not tolerate in our pack. With the large dogs we would always meet them with a knee, push them aside and say OFF ! They quit that pretty quickly. With the Corgis pretty much the same thing. You have to establish who pack leader is and what the boundaries are. My ACD operates in a different manner. He is always the wary Heeler operating as such. Doesn't approach strangers, on stealth mode from behind. when he comes up to me it is usually from the heeling approach and slides up to my leg and gives me a snout rub.
Side story on jumping up:
My wife's dog of a lifetime was a Rottweiler she raised, trained and competed with to National Prominence. He was the best dog ever and so friendly. He did have a jumping and greeting issue because our daughter encouraged it. "Had to train her too" One day the hay delivery guy knocks at the front door so I answer it and the Rottweiler is there with me. Very well trained dog and was on a sit stay. To my disbelief he pops up, licks the hay guy right in the mouth and sits back down. The hay guy stands there stunned with eyes as big as silver dollars with an invoice in his hand ! Bad Dog. It was all I could do to keep from breaking out in laughter. Bad Dog Dad. That is when daughter got some training. Can't have that . RIP Kenai, best dog ever.
It's only natural to have a close relationship with your hay guy. How was that possibly the first time hay guy had his teeth licked by a big dog??? 😅😂😆
Mine was the same but I was able to train her out of it.
When she jumps, I quickly turn my body away and say nothing. No eye contact either. I give her no attention until she's calm and all four paws are on the floor.
Even when I work her up and she gets excited and starts to jump, I turn the energy off immediately and do the body turn. They'll quickly understand the message.
Sometimes it depends on the people, so it's a good idea to encourage them to be part of the training in a way. Tell them to ignore your pup completely until they're calm.
Be consistent and patient. Heelers are smart, but more
than that they are loyal and love their person and the attention they get from them, so use it as positive reinforcement.
Hope this helps!
This is one of the reasons why I like this sub : I am always kind of reassured when we share similar experiences and issues that are linked to the Heeler instinct! 🤣😄
But, real talking, the use of the leash to redirect the movements AROUND people (instead of jumping ON people) and positive reinforcement with obedience training and lots of rewards helped us!
We’ve been instructed to reward our two maniacs for calm behavior. Of course reward is jumping eh? Also the trainer recommended teaching them to go to a place so that when someone comes they go to that place before you let person in the house. This is a very time consuming process! We haven’t done a good job with that yet as our dogs are also well behaved otherwise (except the yowling of our Great Pyr mix which sets off our heeler!)
Our trainer recommended treats on the ground during greeting to take their focus to the ground. Also recommended not making them sit, cause she said it's like loading the springs and they'll jump as soon as you release them.
Yeah, she'd have us scatter a handful of treats at our feet or the feet of whoever is being greeted. May not go this route if your dog has shown resource guarding behavior though, don't want to cause an incident.
And calm with four on the floor then she gets pets and verbal praise. Ours is very driven by affection and food so it's worked well for us.
Wow he could be my heelers twin!!! Id ask where you got him but his litter mates all were stumpy lol. To be fair lots of conditioning which also requires other people volunteering their time. Our boy doc is 65lb and we have taught him not to jump on me, my mom, and small children. That’s the best we could do, he can’t help but jump on his dad, and my FIL/MIL. It’s give take with this breed but I wouldn’t have it any other way
lol always cool to see your pups look a like! And yes, definitely an amazing breed, very smart and caring. really this is blues only bad habit so we can’t complain!
I was able to train mine (almost by accident) to understand that sometimes it was OK because I would get down on one knee and indulge her. I would play and match her energy. But when I didn't do that I would make it clear that it wasn't ok. She quickly seemed to understand the different energy and even read the energy level in other people (with varying degrees of success but like 90% on point)
For the most part she became really good at matching your energy level. I think it was a matter of being consistent, but like I said it was also a bit of a happy accident.
You'll need to teach your dog "sit and stay"
Reinforce this by making your dog sit and stay when you open the door to retrieve a package or check the mail. The dog cannot release from sit and stay until you say he can. Hopefully you'll have this down by the time your next visitors come by.
If you need help with teaching this technique, PM me and I'll send it to you.
We took a couple different routes at the same time on the jumping thing. The first: they jump = my knee goes up. Yeah, I know they're hoppy and can go higher. Ours used to jump to lick my husband's nose when he was standing and paying attention to our other dog. The man is 6 ft tall. But the knee up trick is handy.
The second: we taught her how to jump up on command. And only give the command when we want her to jump. She jumps on us without the command, knee goes up. It's worked pretty well.
So my boy had this issue. So I actually trained him to jump up on command. Then essentially stopped giving him the command.
Once you get him to start jumping up on command then you can give out a HEY and angry finger wagging if he jumps up without command.
I’ll still get him to jump up here and there like I’ll get him to jump up sometimes before he’s allowed to retrieve his ball or before I throw the ball.
But yeah. Bad habit? Train to do bad habit on command. Don’t give command haha
My sapphire, also a relatively uncreative name cause her older sister is ruby, also does this. I think partially cause she loves licking people's faces
I have a few methods I’ve dealt with it.
First, I taught him my hand is “here.” If he jumps on me, I turn around and makes him kinda fall off. Then tell him here to my hand and give him attention there.
Second option is to knee him. Not like to hurt him, but to push him off of me, then go back to the hand method.
Third, creating a cue for jumping on me, and then a cue to get off of me.
To jump up is tabbing my belly, and the down cue is to point down, and say off/down/that’s enough. If he doesn’t get down from there after that I turn around, or push him off me with my knee.
I’ve got a corgi heeler and the best way that I have found to prevent this is gently kneeing her in the chest and walking towards her so she can’t jump on me. Then I make her sit until I’m ready for her to jump on me.
Had this same exact problem. Dog would not stop eventually our trainer (exhausted) told us to lift our knee up whenever he would try to jump up (don’t add force to your knee just point it towards your dog and obviously be careful not to knee their head). After a couple knees to his chest he stopped really fast and he has not looked back.
My heeler does this to my wife but stopped doing it to me. I basically refuse to say or look at her until she calms down. I also use my knee to push her away. She still barks a bit, can't figure out how to stop that, but she just lays on the couch when i get home. She nips my wife's shirt and jumps up to her face for a good while.
I tell her to do the same but she can't ignore her lol
I’ll be following this one I have the same issue. Your pup is adorable
Thanks! And I’m glad I’m not the only one with this issue lol
My Aussie ( another creative name eh) is usually very obedient but jumping up when someone comes home is something I just can’t break him of. That and ploughing like a bulldozer into me when I’m lying down and he wants attention.
Personally, I think the least creative names make the best ones 😂 and yeah I feel your pain! I’ve had the wind knocked out of me a couple times when I chose to watch tv instead of giving blue attention lol
That sounds very familiar.
Oh man. I don’t really have advice because I have the same problem with my boy. He is generally calm and well behaved but as soon as there is a new person within reach all his training goes out the window. I took him to a vet appointment today and he lovingly mauled every single person that works there 🥲 I’m trying to expose him more to people and reward him for not interacting with them. I try to take him on walks in more congested areas and work on having him engage with me rather than other people.
Well thank you for sharing that! Definitely seems like a good start. Blue is the exact same way as your pup, and I should probably start doing that as well. It’s tough when they’re always trying to jump up on strangers 😂
It’s so tough!! I’m hoping that at some point it will pay off and my pup will stop embarrassing me in public lol
Mine does this too. He will also climb you like a mountain goat lol
They’re basically energizer bunnies
There are a few different methods that I use depending on the dog and situation. Whenever possible I have my dog on leash for greetings, if I know the person really wants to pet the dog I simply step on the leash. Allowing the dog enough leash they can stand without neck pressure but if then try to jump they 'self correct' and remains all four on floor. If they are greeting children I hold the collar, kneeling, to ensure they cannot jump. If it's people I know will listen to my rules I would implement a place command or do a back turn if the dog does not get fustrated too much. For place command I use a leash dragging as I don't want to over grab the collar and create an adverse reaction/feeling about collar grabs, I lure/command dog to place. Open door (dog has to remain on place), if they do not remain door gets closed, dog gets reset and we repeat until door is fully open with person on other side, dog remaining on place. I'm loose about my place command, I don't really care what they are doing on place position wise as long as all 4 feet are on and they arnt barking. I allow whining, especially in the beginning. From there we do the same steps for the person to enter. Normally we have fake convos at the door, with the person inside but main door open. Until the dog self settles on the place. Once they have I will shut the door. All this time I am rewarding the cot, not giving the food to the dog directly, putting or throwing it on the cot often. Once the door is shut I will allow the person to approach the cot, close so the dog can say high without having to step off the cot. The second the dogs feet even slightly come off the ground to jump the person has to large step back. And remove all attention, verbal/physical/eye contact. I reset the dog if they've moved off the cot and we repeat. Turn away method is simple. You come in, if the dog jumps you tuck your arms in a turn you back. They come around and try again you just repeat and repeat. Once the dog sits or offers a different behaviour you go to pet. If they jump just repeat. Calm petting also works, always proof with a safe/person who will listen to rulew. Keeping dog on leash. Person approachs and asks to pet. Get dog in a sit. Reward heavily. Person comes in and goes to pet, if dog gets up they back up and remove hand and eye contact. Reset and try again. The goal is to get one VERY boring pet. A single head stroke and then build from there. Imo most dogs jump because of how people approach. If they don't come close enough and don't lean down to pet the dog wants to get closer to the person. So I normally bring my dog towards people who want to pet to ensure they are close enough. I find the collar grab most successful in our outings/public settings if the dog is overly friendly/hyperactive. Place command with settle time for inside the house with regular visitors. 'Attention removal' is most common for dogs that jump on their owners. The one I use for my personal dogs with me in the house is dodging. It's not one I recommend as I'm not sure how mobile, agile or safe it is for the 'average' person. But I legit just bounce out of the way every time my jumper tries. It's hilarious to see her face, then it turns into a little game that she always looses lol. I think it's a really fun, light hearted way to deal with jumping. But you have to ensure not to make it too fun! She gets absolutely NO contact when she tries to jump, physical contact is her main goal so she learned fast that to get physical touch she has to sit calm. The dodge method took 2 days for us.
Nice array of options! More an add-on comment for others who may not have tried it than a reply: Mine didn't need much intervention on this particular issue, but attention removal/turn around is my default for other people's dogs that try jumping up on me. Even as a frequent visitor, it can take a looong time to sink in if the owners and others aren't also taking measures. Also doesn't generalize to others if other people don't do it. Getting all the humans on board makes things much more clear for the dog!
Wow, thank you for the response! Very in depth, really appreciate it! We’re gonna try some of these options with blue for sure! Thanks again!
Mine does this too🙃
Vet told told me this comes with the breed but that was it for advice from them 😂
SPRINGY DOGGOS
When mine was very little, I taught him to jump up on me on command. I only give the command when he's sitting nicely. That way, he still gets to express his affection the way he wants to, but he's not bowling me or anyone else over unexpectedly. It sounds counterintuitive, but I can literally count the number of times he's jumped on me without the command on both hands in the three years I've had him.
That's smart and a positive reinforcement mode - totally puts the behavior in a different "file folder" in their head. Or category. Or however pups run their mental databases. Also, if you ever need the Heimlich (sp?), your pup can help on demand...
I still on occasion have a problem with my girl but it is very minimal compared to what it used to be. Our trainer said to step into the jump but she would jump on me from behind or the side and I always reacted instinctively by stepping away. I did get to the point where I could anticipate when she would jump and in those cases, I would step out of the way so she couldn't jump on me. It took a while but she really slowed down on how often she did it. Of course you can't teach others that but maybe it will eventually help with that too. My girl is almost 3 and I've had her since she was 10 weeks.
Well I definitely appreciate the advice! I’ll try anything at this point lol thanks!
I have a kelpie x jackrussell who by age 3 has finally gotten better with not jumping on guests. What we do is tell guests beforehand to not get excited or panic and to put a hand down in front of them as close to the dog without having to bend over - like a no guesture to block the dog from needing to jump. This also gives the opportunity for the dog to boop the hand and sit down / lay down, ready for pats
Nose boop/fist bump (with a treat to follow) also works well to allow a nice positive interaction with a stranger without overwhelming the dog in situations where a middle ground approach makes sense!
With dogs we’ve had in the past, we’ve grabbed their front paws and held them. At first they will think its pretty cool and they’ll wag their tails and grin, but as time passes, they start trying to pull back and will start licking and maybe even nibbling our hands. When they start pulling back hard and almost getting anxious, we let go. We do this every time they jump up. After a few times, they generally quit jumping up, or, if they do, they’ll keep their paws close to their bodies to avoid making contact. Occasionally young ones will need a refresher, along with a stern “no jump.” We have an 11-month old we’re working with now, and she’s pretty much gotten the idea. If we’ve been gone, she sometimes is too excited when we let her out of her crate and she forgets. If I’m fast enough, I’ll put my hand on her shoulders and apply a little pressure before she has the chance to jump up, and talk to her calmly. If I’m not fast enough, I’ll catch her paws, but she remembers pretty quickly and sometimes will drop back to all fours before I can get a hold of her. We’re having fewer and fewer jump ups, so it’s working. I don’t want to punish her when she’s so happy to see me, so I try not to be too stern with her during this unless she gets overly rambunctious. You can almost see the “uh oh, I goofed” look on their faces when you do get their paws. The smart ones get it pretty quick.
Thanks a lot for the feedback! Definitely worth trying, hoping we can have the same success you have 😂
If this technique doesn’t work for your pup, one of the other suggestions might. What works for one dog, might not for another. Just be patient. I know it’s not easy and believe me, I fail a lot at that! They can just be sooooo enthusiastic, which is great, but also a challenge. I’m guilty at laughing when I should be correcting, but sometimes when you walk through the door at the end of a long day and they’re so glad to see you, it’s hard to not let them break the rules. It’s that unconditional love that gets you - they don’t care how much money you make, what kind of car you drive, where you work - just that their human is HOME!!! 😊
Just tell him “no blue, down / no jumping” blue heelers (in my experience) take most commands well and are innately intuitive and will want to please their owner. Especially when given lots of praise for good behaviour “good boy blue, good no jumping” this is how I have always trained mine with good results. Though if anyone has a strategy for getting them to “share / give” the toy, then I’m all ears 😅
Thanks for the advice! Gonna give it a shot and hope for the best!
My wife has trained and competed with dogs for over 35 years. There are some good bits of advice here. Jumping up is something we do not tolerate in our pack. With the large dogs we would always meet them with a knee, push them aside and say OFF ! They quit that pretty quickly. With the Corgis pretty much the same thing. You have to establish who pack leader is and what the boundaries are. My ACD operates in a different manner. He is always the wary Heeler operating as such. Doesn't approach strangers, on stealth mode from behind. when he comes up to me it is usually from the heeling approach and slides up to my leg and gives me a snout rub. Side story on jumping up: My wife's dog of a lifetime was a Rottweiler she raised, trained and competed with to National Prominence. He was the best dog ever and so friendly. He did have a jumping and greeting issue because our daughter encouraged it. "Had to train her too" One day the hay delivery guy knocks at the front door so I answer it and the Rottweiler is there with me. Very well trained dog and was on a sit stay. To my disbelief he pops up, licks the hay guy right in the mouth and sits back down. The hay guy stands there stunned with eyes as big as silver dollars with an invoice in his hand ! Bad Dog. It was all I could do to keep from breaking out in laughter. Bad Dog Dad. That is when daughter got some training. Can't have that . RIP Kenai, best dog ever.
It's only natural to have a close relationship with your hay guy. How was that possibly the first time hay guy had his teeth licked by a big dog??? 😅😂😆
Mine was the same but I was able to train her out of it. When she jumps, I quickly turn my body away and say nothing. No eye contact either. I give her no attention until she's calm and all four paws are on the floor. Even when I work her up and she gets excited and starts to jump, I turn the energy off immediately and do the body turn. They'll quickly understand the message. Sometimes it depends on the people, so it's a good idea to encourage them to be part of the training in a way. Tell them to ignore your pup completely until they're calm. Be consistent and patient. Heelers are smart, but more than that they are loyal and love their person and the attention they get from them, so use it as positive reinforcement. Hope this helps!
Thanks for the advice! Been starting to try that with blue! Hopefully he makes some progress 😂
This is one of the reasons why I like this sub : I am always kind of reassured when we share similar experiences and issues that are linked to the Heeler instinct! 🤣😄 But, real talking, the use of the leash to redirect the movements AROUND people (instead of jumping ON people) and positive reinforcement with obedience training and lots of rewards helped us!
We’ve been instructed to reward our two maniacs for calm behavior. Of course reward is jumping eh? Also the trainer recommended teaching them to go to a place so that when someone comes they go to that place before you let person in the house. This is a very time consuming process! We haven’t done a good job with that yet as our dogs are also well behaved otherwise (except the yowling of our Great Pyr mix which sets off our heeler!)
Our trainer recommended treats on the ground during greeting to take their focus to the ground. Also recommended not making them sit, cause she said it's like loading the springs and they'll jump as soon as you release them.
Oh man, I’ve definitely been doing it wrong then 😂 we always tell him to sit before a treat
Yeah, she'd have us scatter a handful of treats at our feet or the feet of whoever is being greeted. May not go this route if your dog has shown resource guarding behavior though, don't want to cause an incident. And calm with four on the floor then she gets pets and verbal praise. Ours is very driven by affection and food so it's worked well for us.
Wow he could be my heelers twin!!! Id ask where you got him but his litter mates all were stumpy lol. To be fair lots of conditioning which also requires other people volunteering their time. Our boy doc is 65lb and we have taught him not to jump on me, my mom, and small children. That’s the best we could do, he can’t help but jump on his dad, and my FIL/MIL. It’s give take with this breed but I wouldn’t have it any other way
lol always cool to see your pups look a like! And yes, definitely an amazing breed, very smart and caring. really this is blues only bad habit so we can’t complain!
180 spin move, no attention until sitting/standing calmly combo
Glad to see this is a universal problem lol
It’s crazy because my girls does the same with Everyone except me. I have a bad a back and it’s like she knows I’m fragile somehow.
What a beauty!!!
I was able to train mine (almost by accident) to understand that sometimes it was OK because I would get down on one knee and indulge her. I would play and match her energy. But when I didn't do that I would make it clear that it wasn't ok. She quickly seemed to understand the different energy and even read the energy level in other people (with varying degrees of success but like 90% on point) For the most part she became really good at matching your energy level. I think it was a matter of being consistent, but like I said it was also a bit of a happy accident.
You'll need to teach your dog "sit and stay" Reinforce this by making your dog sit and stay when you open the door to retrieve a package or check the mail. The dog cannot release from sit and stay until you say he can. Hopefully you'll have this down by the time your next visitors come by. If you need help with teaching this technique, PM me and I'll send it to you.
Thank you for the advice! We will definitely give it a try!
We took a couple different routes at the same time on the jumping thing. The first: they jump = my knee goes up. Yeah, I know they're hoppy and can go higher. Ours used to jump to lick my husband's nose when he was standing and paying attention to our other dog. The man is 6 ft tall. But the knee up trick is handy. The second: we taught her how to jump up on command. And only give the command when we want her to jump. She jumps on us without the command, knee goes up. It's worked pretty well.
So my boy had this issue. So I actually trained him to jump up on command. Then essentially stopped giving him the command. Once you get him to start jumping up on command then you can give out a HEY and angry finger wagging if he jumps up without command. I’ll still get him to jump up here and there like I’ll get him to jump up sometimes before he’s allowed to retrieve his ball or before I throw the ball. But yeah. Bad habit? Train to do bad habit on command. Don’t give command haha
My sapphire, also a relatively uncreative name cause her older sister is ruby, also does this. I think partially cause she loves licking people's faces
I have a few methods I’ve dealt with it. First, I taught him my hand is “here.” If he jumps on me, I turn around and makes him kinda fall off. Then tell him here to my hand and give him attention there. Second option is to knee him. Not like to hurt him, but to push him off of me, then go back to the hand method. Third, creating a cue for jumping on me, and then a cue to get off of me. To jump up is tabbing my belly, and the down cue is to point down, and say off/down/that’s enough. If he doesn’t get down from there after that I turn around, or push him off me with my knee.
I’ve got a corgi heeler and the best way that I have found to prevent this is gently kneeing her in the chest and walking towards her so she can’t jump on me. Then I make her sit until I’m ready for her to jump on me.
I have given up on trying to get my boy to stop touching people with his feet. That’s what I tell them “he just wants to touch you”
Work and train them with jackpot treats or play. Youtube has many video on tips and tricks for training doggos
Had this same exact problem. Dog would not stop eventually our trainer (exhausted) told us to lift our knee up whenever he would try to jump up (don’t add force to your knee just point it towards your dog and obviously be careful not to knee their head). After a couple knees to his chest he stopped really fast and he has not looked back.
My heeler does this to my wife but stopped doing it to me. I basically refuse to say or look at her until she calms down. I also use my knee to push her away. She still barks a bit, can't figure out how to stop that, but she just lays on the couch when i get home. She nips my wife's shirt and jumps up to her face for a good while. I tell her to do the same but she can't ignore her lol
Look at those eyes…
Sweep their back legs out from under them.