Tattoo your dog’s brain with basic obedience commands

Correcting this behavior in a positive manner (as oppose to yelling at your dog) requires the use of basic obedience commands such as down or sit command.

Teach your dog to heed these commands and ask your guest/visitor not to greet your dog with joy when being jumped on. See, from my observation, most visitors would shower praises whenever a puppy jumps to greet them.

They too regard this as a cute behavior and naturally, this would only serve to further encourage the behavior.  Therefore, you should instruct your guest not to provide positive attention when the puppy or dog jumps on them.

And once your dog has fully learned the appropriate obedience commands and as soon as you see him performing this behavior, immediately tell him to “sit” or “stay down”.

Also for best result, instruct your guest to issue these commands when your dog jumps on him or her. This helps to get your dog to fully grasp on the fact that this habit is inappropriate and discouraged by people around him.

Practice how to stop a dog from jumping up on people by conducting the following steps.

1. Make sure your dog is already capable of understanding the basic sit, stay and down commands.Now get your dog to stand by the door.
   
2. Next, ask a friend to enter the house and get close to your dog.
   
3. If your dog doesn’t jump, praise and say good boy/girl and tell your friend to present a treat to the dog.
   
4. If your dog jumps, immediately tell him to “sit” in a firm tone of voice and be sure to tell your friend to back away from your dog. No treats and repeat step 1 - 3 once more.
   
5. Remember to give praise and reward if the dog sits when your friend comes to him. Your goal here is to teach your dog that he’ll be showered with praise and given a reward if he doesn’t jump on people.

Do a the above steps a few times per week and you’ll notice a positive difference as your dog finally gets the idea that jumping on people is a discouraged habit.

You can also use a clicker to conduct this practice. The methods described in this clicker training course requires no treat initially, thus you effectively teach your dog not perform this behavior without having to give reward or in other words, bribe. 

Massive Action, Massive Consistency!

No matter which methods you opt to do, always remember to remain consistent when training your dog. Don’t do it like twice this week, and then zero training the next week.

Stick to a schedule and remember to make each training session short and to the point so that you and your dog won’t get too tired in the long run.  I feel that short, straightforward training session is easier to handle and you’re less likely deviate form your original schedule.

Recommended course for turning your stubborn, jumping addict doggy into an obedient and highly trainable pet

Watch demo video and listen to the funky music by going directly to http://www.canisclickertraining.com