Jumping Harness

[boconnor]

My puppy Kona is just over 6 months old, and listens pretty well. However, she has a very bad jumping habit, to the point where she knocked someone over. We have tried turning our backs, putting a knee up, pushing her off, practically everything I have read about.

My questions concerns a harness I found online that attaches the the dogs back legs and stops them from extending fully which stops them from jumping.

Does anyone have experience with this type of harness? I would just like some feed back before I try it out.

Thanks.

[Chicagocanine]

Have you tried training an "automatic" sit when she approaches people?

[boconnor]

Most of the time, she sits when my mom or I walk through the door. The main problem is visitors.

How exactly would I start to train for an automatic sit?

[vicky2200]

Cant be of any help to the harness because I have never even heard of that. However if the issue is that she is jumping on visitors, and not just you, you could use any harness and hold her back. Its great support. Cant say how to stop them from jumping on you, seems like the ones that really like that are hard to stop.

[Chicagocanine]

For training this, you can work on it a few ways. You can practice having people come up to her or have someone else (like your mom) hold the leash and you come up to her. If she sits, praise and reward. If she doesn't sit, or if she sits but then jumps up when you praise her, you can either say "wrong" (or something like that, whatever word you like) and turn and walk away, or just stand there but ignore her until she sits.
Once she is sitting down each time the person approaches without jumping at all, raise the difficulty level by acting excited or having new people walk up to her, and then do the same process each time. The goal is for her to respond to someone approaching by sitting down "automatically".
I've heard trainers suggest to have a "puppy party" to work on this once your dog is starting to get the idea. Invite a bunch of people over and explain to them you're training your dog, and then do the same process as above each time a person rings the doorbell.

If the jumping is really bad or she just won't sit when you try to practice it, you can try keeping a leash or drag line on her whenever possible (when someone is there to watch her). When she goes to greet you or another person, step on the leash far enough up it so that she can't jump up. This will prevent the jumping behavior while you're working on the training, and keep her from inadvertently getting rewarded for jumping.


Here are a few other methods to train this:
YouTube - 'How to' teach your dog not to jump up on people! - clicker training
Clicker Training Lessons - Jumping Up
YouTube - Carolyn Menteith - How to teach your dog not to jump up
Jumping For Joy | Dog Star Daily

[doggiedad]

is this jumping new behaviour or is it you
did nothing about it untill now???
i would leash her and start introducing her to people.
you can put her on a short leash or fold down
a regular leash. invite family, friends and neighbors over
so you cn work her greeting people. work with her everyday,
several times a day.

[boconnor]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check out the videos and try putting a leash on her when we have people over.