Re: Jumping up – real help needed (again)

[Sweetypye]

Timescales are difficult.

Remember every time you allow a dog to rehearse a strategy/behaviour, he gets better at it.

You could attach a light line to your dog and practise meeting and greeting people with the line under your foot; that way the pressure of the lead is DOWNWARDS and he cannot lift his head or take his front feet off the floor.  Speed is then not an issue

When the dog can do this 9/10 and gets what he wants eg attention then you can start practising without the dog on the lead this way.

If you teach a behaviour that is incompatible with jumping up he is not going to do it.

However, you MUST expect what is called an “extinction burst”; this is when the dog jumps up EVEN MORE than before because he cannot understand why his previous strategy no longer works; this is usually when people start saying “I tried that and it did not work” you did not try it long enough.

It DOES work, but you must expect it to take some time and you must be relentless and consistent and not allow the dog to be rewarded with attention at ANY time when he does not have 4 paws on the floor.