Stop Your Puppy From Jumping Up

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     Does Your Puppy Jump Up?

Teaching a puppy to not jump up should be taught to the pup as soon as possible.

When puppies are little it is very natural for them to try to get your attention by jumping up. As a wild animal pups would lick their mothers face to encourage food to be regurgitated. Not giving your puppy attention when it jumps up will show it that behavior of that sort does not work for it. I know that when you have a little pup it seems cute and can be fun playing with it but it also gives the puppy permission to continue this behavior and soon the puppy will grow and will be jumping five feet into the air.

Not stopping your puppy from jumping when it is still a puppy will, when your dog becomes larger, turn into a very dominant display of demanding your attention!

1. When your puppy jumps up, turn and walk away. Simply ignore the puppy, don't make eye contact, don't speak and do not touch the puppy.
2. Keep ignoring your puppy until you see that the puppy has calmed down, wait five more minutes then call your puppy to you.
3. If the puppy continues to jump up on you put the puppy in another room or you can leave the room yourself leaving the puppy alone.

If your puppy jumps up on visitors

* Ask your visitors to do the same as advised above, you may want to try holding the puppy by it's collar or on a lead until they relax - release the pup. If the puppy continues the behavior or mouths you should immediately isolate them in another room or crate them.

Puppy jumping up at you when you are getting ready for the walk:

* Lay the leash down and wait for ten minutes or until the pup has calmed down. Now try again. I know you may be just as ready to go for a walk as the puppy is but this is important and you should not rush it.

Some important concepts to understand:

* When your Puppy jumps up it is extremely important, not to speak. Stay calm and don't say a word. Your puppy is an attention seeking machine, remember this.
*When your Puppy jumps up and invades your space or the space of a visitor, it is not it's way of saying "I love you.".
* A dog's space is very important to it, if she/he finds that she/he can invade your space whenever he/she wants your dog will lose respect for you.
* How would you feel about a human that constantly invaded your space? It is more similar than you might imagine.
* When ignoring your puppy keep your arms folded and walk past the puppy confidently and assertively.
* When your puppy is calm, pick her up and comfort her.

The two most common mistakes people make when training their puppies:

1. People can't seem to resist making eye contact. Eye contact is just like inviting your puppy over, don't make eye contact, try to keep your focus on something else.
2. Being consistent with the training. Giving into your puppy when he jumps up is only undoing what you have started to teach.
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This is a very good trick for helping to train your puppy not to jump. Train her to sit for everything. If you can get your puppy to practice sitting a lot then the puppies default behavior will be to sit when you call her and she will forget about jumping up.