[nagdu] Behaviour question

Sat Mar 14 19:31:24 UTC 2015

Lisa,

Those techniques should help a lot, once you start to get a handle on 
the exuberance.

It can also really help if you can convince the people who come in to be 
greeted will just stop and turn away from Taylor until he stops 
jump;ing, then turn to look at him, then turn away when he gets excited, 
then look when he settles... If you have a friend or two who can just 
come in and out and play that game, it might take you a long way. When 
Mitzi was young, I had a neighbor and her kid who would do that with 
Mitzi, and it was great. The kid thought it was a great game, so we all 
had fun even. /smile/ At the time, Mitzi was still reserved, but she 
adored them and started going nuts when she saw them. By the time she 
was relaxed enough to greet others, she had learned nice greeting 
manners from them. Whew!

We've had more trouble with my husband's dog, since she is super excited 
to jump on people and is also built like a brick. We're always afraid 
she's going to break someone. For some reason, my family has not been 
able to figure out about just stopping and ignoring her, so it's ben 
difficult. She's 3 and a half now, so much better, but I had to bring in 
a professional trainer to walk in and out of the door ignoring the dog 
to get her started on settling down. I also taught her to sit at the end 
of the carpet before the entryway, which helped some. I think Loki is 
getting some benefit from my ongoing work with Zay (the pet), but I do 
need to remember to give my family instructions for the round of 
upcoming visits. Sigh.

Good luck! I think you're on the right track.

Tami

On 03/14/2015 07:32 AM, Lisa via nagdu wrote:
> Hi Daryl,
>
> thanks for your quick reply!
> The first advice regarding the toy definitely helps.
> And I can understand the solution with lying down when he jumped up to
> people. I think when we try this, I have to take him on a short leash or
> something because otherwise, he would lie down for 10 seconds and then
> jump up again because the new person is still around and still so
> interesting. On leash, I could prevent him from getting up again, after
> he has lied down. Will have to see how this works for us.
>
> Thanks again! :)
> Lisa
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daryl Marie via nagdu"
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> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 3:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Behaviour question
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>> Heya, Lisa!
>>
>> In the first couple months with Jenny, she had a similar problem of
>> jumping at people or up for toys.  It was a behavior I actively
>> discouraged, and what I found worked for us was the following:
>>
>> If she jumped at a toy, a stern "No jumping!", the toy gets put down,
>> dog goes to bed, play is over, PERIOD.  I did this... I think twice,
>> and it caught on right away.  I seriously don't remember the last time
>> it happened.
>>
>> As for people, we wound up with a similar issue, and we treated it in
>> a similar way.  Dog jumps up on someone, a firm "No jumping, lay
>> down!"  Dog cannot jump while laying down.  This jumping behavior will
>> likely continue so long as the person actually reacts, because it
>> reinforces it.  If the person turns their back on him, it shows him
>> that he will not get the attention from them, which he wants in the
>> first place.
>>
>> Does this help?
>>
>>
>> Daryl
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: Lisa via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org> Sent: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 07:46:45 -0600 (MDT)
>> 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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