[nagdu] Behaviour question

[Danielle Sykora]

These are all good suggestions. A dog will not continue to jump if he
isn't inadvertently being rewarded for it. If you are talking to
someone outside while your dog is working, you could have him sit.
when someone comes to your door have your dog lay down or go to a
specific place. It might be useful to have a leash on hand that you
can attach to your dogs collar until he learns to stay for longer
periods of time. It might also be beneficial to tell anyone entering
your home to ignore the dog if he jumps on them. That way, he will
come to realize that it is useless to jump on unfamiliar people
because they won't pay any attention to him.

Danielle and Thai


On 3/14/15, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi Lisa.
> I make the dog sit when I'm talking to someone and the dog is in harness.
> Krokus gets very excited when people come over.  If it's a friend, I ask
> them to wait a minute while I put him on leash before they come in.  I'm
> also working on teaching Krokus "Go to your place".  In time, I hope that
> he
> will go to his place and wait there even when I open the front door to let
> someone in.  We're a ways from that yet, but he will wait in his place
> while
> I take off my coat and hang up his leash and harness, so that's a start.
> HTH.
> Tracy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lisa via nagdu
> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 9:47 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: [nagdu] Behaviour question
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm coming to you with a question once again. Just to give you the basic
> info:
> I have a 3-year-old lab named Taylor. I got him in September 2014. We work
> alot on different things and it's amazing to see his or our progress.
> My question is not about his guidework but about his behaviour when people
> come to visit or when we stop and talk to people outside.
> He wants to jump up on people (is that the right term? Sorry, if not. I
> think you know what I mean) and just gets too wild and excited when I start
> to talk to people, also strangers. When people come into our apartment and
> don't ignore him completely, he jumps up on them several times, starts to
> run in circles around them and gets all excited. Depending on how the
> person
> reacts, it stops soon or gets worse and worse. Of course I try to forbid
> him
> to jump everytime. I also try to let him sit after a short greeting. But I
> just feel I haven't found the best solution to control him in such a
> situation yet. Especially here in the apartment, I of course don't have him
> on a leash and therefore have to think of other things to do to stop him
> from getting too excited.
>
> Do you have any strategies or exercises for me that could help me fix this
> issue?
> It's just very unpleasant, this surprised reaction from people who are
> often
> like "He is a trained service dog. Why is he behaving like this?"
>
> best wishes from Germany
> Lisa
>
>
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