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Question
hi dawn

i have a two and a half year old bitch she constantley jumps up and when i raise my hand and tell her off she shows her teeth she has only just started to do this have you got any ideas on how i can controll this bad habbit ?


regards


lee scrivens

Answer
Hi, first off, you don't want to use your hands to keep her off you, dogs view hands as paws as far as body language is concerned.  When you raise you hands, they view the body language as you raising paws to them to play.  What you need to do is when you first see her and know she is going to jump up, use the command "Off", if she jumps up, then tell her "No" and then repeat the command "Off".  When you knee her, you should only try to annoy her by putting your knee up, not actually kick her.  I reccommend that you show other people how to do this so that others will "annoy" her also and she will not know who knows the "trick" of raising the knee, and who doesn't if you have various people do it.    Hope this helps.

Dawn