How Do I Stop My Dog From Jumping up on People?

Hey folks! This is Frank from Sit Happens Dog Training.

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Today's question is:

"How Do I Stop My Dog From Jumping up on People?"

Answer from Frank Silva

Okay. So, I always start with something called spatial pressure. Okay. Something they do in the wild. So, think about a pack of wolves. And in that pack, you have the pack leader that's trying to get some rest. And then you have a puppy with a bunch of energy that wants to play with the pack leader. The pack leader is only going to put up with so much and then he's going to jump up and he is going to get in that puppy's face very close and push that puppy back. That's his way of trying to correct the puppy. No, you can't do that. So, I'll give you an example. I'll just do it physically. I don't know how this is going to look in in the video, but let's just pretend there's a puppy coming up to me. All right, he's getting ready to jump. I'm gonna take one big step. I usually spread my legs and go like this and stop. I'm not using my hands. I'm not doing this. This is just play for puppies. Okay. So, it's one big step pushing that puppy back. Yeah, sometimes they might flip over. They'll be fine. They're puppies. They're very resilient. And it's not a oneandone as well. That goes for any part of dog training. You doing that one time is not going to fix the problem. You have to repeat it. It's it's about continuous reinforcement with puppies and dogs. So again, spatial pressure. Walk into them. Now some puppies, yes, they are stronger jumpers and they don't get that corrective as quickly. So at that point, I'm introducing. Okay, that's my universal word for uh that's a bad behavior. Okay. What I will say, and a lot of trainers will give this advice. When a puppy's jumping and jumping, they say turn to ignore them. Now, that might work sometimes, but not all the time. Okay? Because again, the the mindset with the turning around and ignoring them is they're going to get bored. Okay, that's not fun. I don't want to play. But it doesn't work all the time. In fact, some dogs take it as a submissive behavior. So, for me, I don't want to be submissive. I'm in charge.  You're not. I'm going to push into you. All right. And there's some other techniques, by the way, that that I will implement. And it's usually leash techniques to help control the jumping. But that's the first uh, you know, the first thing I would recommend doing.

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