I'm at a complete loss. I do not know what to do about my 1 year old yellow lab anymore. We have trained her not to jump on us at home by all the usual ways (ignoring, feet on the ground for pets, etc.) and it worked. She does not jump on us EVER. However, when I take her for walks it's a completely different dog. She loses her mind when she sees other people and will immediately start leaping up at their faces. It's gotten to the point where we don't take her to the dog park anymore because she leaped at someone and knocked their tooth loose! She's a very smart girl because her dog walker (daily at lunch) doesn't allow her to jump on her by our instruction and I can see on our security cameras that she doesn't even try to jump on her either. So basically, my dog jumps on anyone who hasn't explicitly taught her not to jump on them. Now the other problem. I cannot just go outside for hours on end and train her with each passing resident. I have a 6 month old baby and most of the residents either encourage her jumping by saying "It's okay she's just a puppy" or they are terrified of her craziness and don't want to stop. Nor do I really want to subject myself to the continued embarrassment of her failure. She's completely beside herself when she sees someone. She won't even respond to her own name.
Hello and welcome to the forum. The easiest way to deal with this is simple prevention. When someone is coming, stop and stand on her lead, so it goes in a loop from her collar, under your foot and up to your hand. Don't have it so tight it's pulling on her neck, but not so loose that she can jump up. Doing this, there is no way she can jump up and she will get bored with trying over time. My Willow used to be a horror for jumping at people, but she pretty much entirely grew out of it by using this method.
I do the standing on the lead with Red and it stops her jumping. The double ended lead however is attached to the D rings on the front and top of her harness so there is no pulling to the neck. I find this a really useful technique especially if I see over zealous people making a beeline for her.
I've done the puppy and baby thing too so I completely understand! Our son was three months old when Ella turned one. The majority of her walks were just me, the baby (in a pram) and the dog. When walking along, as soon as I saw someone coming in the opposite direction I'd step to the side, put the brake on the pram and grab my treats. To begin with I would stream treats into Ella's mouth as the person walked by. Slowly, I was able to increase the time between treats and eventually Ella started to spot someone coming, sit down and wait for her treat!
