Dog jumping on visitors to greet them

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We have a 15 month old lurcher collie x. Pretty well behaved for young age, we are still working on lots of training.

There is one thing in particular I would really like to work on. When anyone comes to the house to visit he jumps up on them in 'greeting', which can be intimidating for the guest. I have tried my 'no' command, I have also tried the sit command, which I then treat for, but then he goes back to jumping. Any tips on training to stop this?

The guest should turn their back and fold their arms
We have a "4 paws on the floor" when greeting rule and no attention at all until they were

I agree with Hopping, we also used to put our dog on the lead when visitors arrived as she was so enthusiastic!

My friend has a sign up by her front door. It basically says the dog desperately wants to greet you but please don't interact with her until she's sat nicely. If she jumps up, turn away, fold your arms and look sad and maybe say Ow for good measure to imply she's hurt you.

Don't let him meet people at the door. Shut him away and let them settle in first. The excitement may die down a bit.

I remember a friend opening her door to me then shouting at me to stop (politely) petting the (rather annoying) jumpy dog.

It was extraordinary! She seemed to think I was the one being trained.

Do not do this.

Sometimes you do have to explain to people that your dog is in training and that they mustn't reward his bad behaviour. Giving him praise and attention when he's doing exactly what his owner is trying to train him out of is extremely frustrating for the owner and rewarding the dog for its bad behaviour. Obviously there are nice ways of saying it though.

Ringle let's turn that into a child related situation. In shop mum says no to her young DD having sweets, the DD throws a tantrum. Mums friend says to child don't cry I'll buy you sweets instead. You've just reinforced to that child that throwing a tantrum works, so next time, the DD will tantrum harder and longer.

Same principle with dog. Owner is trying to teach them not to jump up and removes all attention when dog jumps up. Then mums friend comes round and makes a fuss of dog jumping up, thus reinforces that jumping up gets attention. So sets back owners progress weeks days and they have an even harder time stopping dog jumping up.

So as MsAdorabelle says there are nicer ways of saying it but it is infuriating for the owner.

As others have said; an absolute rule of no greeting by visitors (see if you can convince a good friend or two to arrange extra visits to reinforce it). Visitor totally ignores until dog is calm then they get a casual stroke - but again nothing that is going to create excitement so no getting up to go to them or calling them over. Dog gets up or reacts beyond a casual sniff, visitor ignores. And repeat.

One of the hardest things is to not praise in a high energy fashion like you would for other training. Dog settles you give a low, calm, good lad. Nothing more.

It also helps if you don't try to command them too much, choose one simple command and wait for them to be calmer before you give it. A high energy brain simply won't compute the command and you end up undoing your work whilst feeding the "data overload" going on in their head.

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We have a stair gate over the kitchen door and I'd really recommend it. Initially so we could keep puppy and kids separate when necessary but we also use it whenever someone's at the door. If someone arrives he's in the kitchen until he's calm. He squeals and jumps but we ignore him him until he is fully calm. He then has to lie down before the gate is open. Stops all the jumping.

nice idea re stairgate.

never a good idea to shout at people whose only crime was to try not to show their fear when your large dog jumped up at their white blouse. just sayin....