Keep Your Dog From Jumping

Dog jumping problems is a very common thing that many owners have to deal with it. Unfortunately many people actually unknowingly reward this behavior, which is the exact opposite thing that you must do.

Dog jumping often starts off innocently enough,  your dog might raise its paw and put it on your leg in order to get attention.  Then your puppy might jump up on your knees and demanded to be hugged.

In each of these situations most owners respond by giving your dog a treat, petting them, or picking them out. This leads to positive reinforcements which will not keep your dog from jumping.

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Habit Formation

Most people know that habits are very hard to break, which is the same when it comes to dogs. For this reason you need to train your puppy while they're still young that jumping is completely inappropriate.

"OFF" Command

As an early age you should teach your dog the "off" command. And you should also have your children teach the dog the "off" command as well. This is because dogs, especially puppies, love to jump up on small children.

While this might be cute when the puppy is small, when the dog gets bigger, they can actually do physical harm, and may even break the skin if they use claws.

Why Dogs Jump

In order to better keep your dog from jumping, is important to know why they want to jump in the first place at all. Many dogs often tend to jump because they're excited because they're going to get fed soon, or that you have something else that it you're going to give them, like a dog treat.

It may also jump up and down because they want to go for a walk after you had just come home from a long day of work.

Teach Alternatives

Because you should display dominance of your dog at all times, you should never let them jump up on you. Instead of having them jump up on you, you should instead teach them some alternative behavior.

Many dog trainers simply say that when a dog jumps upon you that you should simply ignore them and give them no attention. But I think you should give your dog and alternative behavior.

Some suggestions for this alternative behavior could be just teaching them how to sit, or showing them how to roll over.

Many dogs would gladly just rollover back and forth when they're excited as soon as jump up on you. So why not enforce the rolling over versus the jumping up?

Summary

So if you want to know how to keep your dog from jumping up on you, simply stop rewarding this behavior, and teach them a new and better way to behave.