Help needed - dogs jumping up on me.

morning everyone- im new here and need all the help i can get, since i am barely computer literate. i have a couple of questions about my boys jumping. i dont know how to discourage them from it. when i am walking them, they attempt to jump on whomever we approach. they weigh about 10 lbs less than me.

hi hun how old are yur boys, sorry what breed forgot to look. Have you trained them to the leave commad, i find this helps as mine used to jump up at people to say hi and have a fuss. If not maybe try teaching it side first then when you are walking maybe have some nice treats and when you see someone coming get them to watch you and offer a treat for them nt jumping, it might be easier to train 1 at a time unless there are 2 of you out walking.

i found this helped alot we now tell them to leave and sit and they have to wait until we say it is ok for them to say hi but they must keep all 4 feet on the floor or we tell the people to turn away from them and start again.

hope that makes sense sorry good luck.

they are presa and presa/pitbull. very sweet, but spoiled. thanks for the tip. i never trained them using treats, but im sure it will work. thanks

Mine does this sometimes too although I have managed to stop him doing it most times by using a combination of training discs and the command (very firmly said) Leave it! Most of the time he desists but sometimes he still takes me by surprise. It's embarrassing isn't it?

what is a training disc?

It's a bunch of metal discs which you shake. The first thing you do is put a biscuit on the floor and when your dog goes to get it you throw the discs on the floor and say firmly leave it! You do this about 6 times til they don't pick up the biscuit and then the theory is you can get them to leave just about anything. It has worked to some extent with my dog...he now knows the command leave it and it is quite useful in certain circumstances but I cannot get him to obey when there are other dogs approaching...just too much of a distraction but I am trying to work on this. You can get them online. Just put in training discs. You get a booklet too. might be useful for you. Hope so anyway.:smt001

I'd suggest firstly investing in some good equipment, and a double ended training lead - in the UK I'd suggest something like a Gentle Leader headcollar and a Halti harness:

http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/item...er--gentlelead

http://www.companyofanimals.co.uk/halti-harness.php
and double ended training lead:

http://www.companyofanimals.co.uk/haltilead.php

Hopefully something like these will help you to manage them to start with, then you can do some training to get them to Leave as suggested, also teach a Watch,

here's a good post on teaching the Leave it :

http://www.clickersolutions.com/arti...01/leaveit.htm

It uses clicker training but you can do it without (although clicker training is a great way of training dogs ).

I used this method, to start with, to get my dog to leave other animals so it does work well as long as it is generalised and trained with reward.

One other thing I'd be checking out is, why they are jumping up - is it friendliness, are they wary ... as it may be a behavioural issue ...:smt001

Hth!

Wys
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I know this isn't for me but how would you teach 'Watch' That would be useful for getting his attention when dogs are approaching wouldn't it?

There's several ways to teach it but probably the easiest is to start at home, and bring some lovely tasty food up to your face ... the dog will naturally look at perhaps give you direct eye contact, say Good! and immediately feed the reward.

Repeat many times and gradually lengthen the time the dog watches - but also remember to pop in short ones from time to time too.

I also tend to say things like "Watch .... goooood Watch ....clever girl, gooood watch....as I'm training so the dog does get feedback.

A quick Good! ends it and she gets the reward.

Next you need to start doing it out and about, start in areas with very low distractions and build up ....

Mega rewards for the dog doing well

Hth

Wys
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Thanks will try that.