Having tried for a VERY long time to stop mainly Hattie jumping up I give up : No matter how many times I ask visitors to ignore her they don't so I can't win . Charlie is no way as bad as Hattie, lovely to be able to say that . I have done all the sit with treats etc. etc. etc. So plan 'B' is when the door bell rings I calmly ask them to go to their beds and close the door, after about 5 minutes and they are quiet I tell them they can come out NO JUMPING all calm Is this OK as I don't want them to think they are being punished everytime the door bell rings and someone visits :-\ Thank you x
Re: Jumping Up Plan 'B' I think that's ok and as its something you control you'll probably find their response becomes automatic and you can start to leave the door open while they're in bed and then the time they have to stay in their bed will get shorter Consistency will be the key but you know that. Good luck
Re: Jumping Up Plan 'B' I have been using this for our meal times and they 99% of the time just go to their beds with the door open, they wait until I have cleared up, I then release them, great I hope the same will happen with visitors. I hope I am always consistent Thanks x
Re: Jumping Up Plan 'B' Sounds like a good idea to me. Harley has her tea the same time as us. When she has finished she goes in her bed whilst we finish - we are usually lazy and eat in the front room. This has always worked well for us. I'm still working on the visitors - I might trial your method over the weekend x
Re: Jumping Up Plan 'B' If they have a reward when they go to their beds they will think of the action as pleasurable "hooray here is a visitor, lets rush to our beds for a treat"
Re: Jumping Up Plan 'B' It sound a good idea to me as well Helen. The reward for going to their bed is to then meet the visitor. I have the attitude with visitors who are my family if they get the dogs excited they deal with it. I calm them down and ,like you, tell the person to ignore them until they've settled. If the person doesn't its their own fault. I intervene if it gets too exciting though. :
Re: Jumping Up Plan 'B' My brothers dogs get really excited when we visit but they act totally different with me than with my other half as I won't fuss them till they sit in front of me cause they are quite big. My other half though lets them jump up and rough houses with them (till he gets told off by my sister in law that is lol)
Re: Jumping Up Plan 'B' You just can't win. With my last dog (a terrier and god knows what else mix) she got so over the top when we had visitors that I used to shat her in the kitchen until they were settled. At which point I would release her, she would then dash into the lounge, then skid to a stop and look at them as if to say "it's that boring old lot again". I always felt guilty that I could never stop her over exhuberence. I'm currently training Molly to sit and wait on her mat in the Hall. With a lack of willing victims I have to go outside and let myself in with a key then treat and praise her. I do this repeatedly. Now I'm wondering if I shouldn't just shut her in the kitchen. Like I said "just cannot" win
Re: Jumping Up Plan 'B' Phew thank you, glad that's a good plan Tina, you have nothing to feel bad about, Hattie is 6 years old and still gets over excited and jumps up when anyone comes to the door, but with a lack of visitors willing to do as they are asked it's impossible to train sit/calmness hence Plan 'B' and that does work and the visitors just have to wait until Hattie & Charlie are calm and as Jen said that is their treat - people ;D x
Re: Jumping Up Plan 'B' Sounds like a good plan to me too, Helen. I'm struggling with this a bit too....Simba has a pretty good "go to your bed" response but the trouble being the "stay"...and when he does come off the jumping up starts all over again. I don't have a handy place to shut him into when people come....and I'm a bit hesitant to do that as I know he spent a lot of time shut up in his previous owner's room when she wasn't around as that was basically the way they dealt with him. So being shut into a room is not happy for him.
Re: Jumping Up Plan 'B' Yes I can see that being a problem Lisa Maybe a baby gate so that Simba can still see anyone that enters the house, I know he's a big boy, would he jump it?
Re: Jumping Up Plan 'B' I'm pretty sure he would....unfortunately the layout of our house does not lend itself to a baby gate that well. I think I just need to get more intentional about setting up training scenarios. And working on the "stay" on the bed.
Re: Jumping Up Plan 'B' I have a lead by the door so that I can slip it on Tatze and stand on it to keep paws on floor. I have a treat tin there too to reward calmness. It's working well, we had eight guests to a party last night and she was great using this method. Once all were settled in she was just fine, it's the initial greeting that still needs work.
