Greetings
One is - how he greets people. He thinks everyone loves him, he is overly friendly and can jump on people. Some times he will not listen to us and go and greet a stranger without coming back when he is called. He are afraid he could hurt someone. He have tried almost everything we can think of. He just loves people and other dogs. The second problem is licking. He loves to lick us and anyone when he greets them or for us first thing is the morning. So ignoring him is the best thing we have come up with. This seems to calm him down. BUt, strangers think he is so cute and loveable they just add to his excitement. I told Greg he needs more practice meeting and greeting people. Most the time it is just the two of us. WHen anyone especially our children shows up - they are in for a - warm welcome. Any advise would be appreciated. This is the last two behavior problems we have to control. It is especially hard for me, Greg is his leader and he respects me less - and I am quite a bit smaller in size. Thanks for any and all help. Lu Ann |
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Our OES is exactly the same way - needs to greet everyone and every other dog - jumps on them and doesn't come when called - tunnel vision. He will be 6 months in a week and he does get a lot of socialization with people and other dogs . We work on keeping him off of people - but it is such a battle everytime - and he is not getting any smaller  . I would also love to hear any tips on this one!! |
| i have 2 that think people come to see them the only thing i can do to stop the jumping is put them on a lead before the people come into the yard.. i have tried everything from rocks in cans to banishing them in a room to a sit or down stay , but when they see someone in my yard all of that goes out the window |
| One this that does work, if you can get the visitor to try it. If you fold your hands and look at the ceiling Kirby will lay down. But greeting strangers, they coem up to him because he is so fluffy, and cute and want to pet and talk to him. THis puts him an excited state.
Or if he sees someone he may take off, like you say - tunnel vision. This scares us, who wants a large dog coming at them. He would never hurt them, but even beening overly friendly could potentially cause an injury. I look forward to hearing more advise and tips on this behavior. Why do we have such gorgeous dogs?! |
Tiggy is the same. People come to the house to visit her 
Jumping on visitors is still a work in progress, it depends how well she knows or loves them. Strangers she cant resist and her favorite people need to be greeted eye to eye. While out walking and at the park I have nearly cured her of jumping on people. She very occasionally jumps if a woman fusses over her in a high pitched voice or if the person she runs up to is nervous of dogs and lifts their arms up in the air (why do people do this???) Tiggy is 14 months old now so it has taken a while. I have trained her by walking on lead and making her sit/stay every time a person walking towards us came to about 4 feet away, at first I had to hold her in a sit. Lots of praise for not getting up. And yes a LOT of people stopped and said "its ok, I like dogs you can let her up, she's so cute". One guy argued with me, despite my explaining that not everyone is ok with a big dog jumping on them. It was good training though, Tiggy had to stay sitting (I was holding her) while a guy stood in front of us telling me to let her up, it was ok if she jumped. 
I had a few friends come over to help me. They would growl at her and turn their backs when she jumped up and then pat and praise her when she stayed down. Our off lead park helped because there are lots of dog people come to the park and they dont accept bad behaviour either. A few have been quite firm with her and that really seemed to help her realise that jumping up is not polite behaviour. So if you have friends who are good with dog training get them to help by giving Kirby a good ticking off for jumping. Those who helped most were really growly at Tiggy and had grumpy body language too, then they ignored her to talk to me or (horror) pat a different dog. I could see the penny drop with Tiggy. She hates to be ignored, especially in favour of another dog.  
Also Tiggy was really quite good for a while and then at about 10 months old regressed and started jumping again. Terrible teens maybe?? So it was back to being very firm again.  |
| In a way this thread is almost encouraging. I thought I was one of the "Few, the (not so) Proud, the Jumping OEs owner. Our guy is 7 months and the story line reads the same. The world loves him and he knows it. Talk about cute, nothing worse than a "Cutie Pie" who knows he is a Cutie Pie. I, like many others will be reading this one for some ideas. I am considering a Gentle Leader or Haltie but would really rather he just learn not to jump. I do the sitting thing, BUT, sometimes it fruitless. |
| We had Max pretty well trained to not jump up, but my wife can't stand it. She's gotta have him jump up and kiss her when she gets home.
So, he's back in the habit of jumping on people (although, not on kids thankfully). Just make sure that everyone who comes into contact with him on a frequent basis follows the same rules. |
MaxNimmer wrote: We had Max pretty well trained to not jump up, but my wife can't stand it. She's gotta have him jump up and kiss her when she gets home.
So, he's back in the habit of jumping on people (although, not on kids thankfully). Just make sure that everyone who comes into contact with him on a frequent basis follows the same rules. If you want Max to jump - make it a command. Give it a name, and teach him to jump only when he hears that word. Then he will jump for your wife, but still keep 4 on the floor the rest of the time. |
| Persistance is the key - oh and all sing from the same hym book!
After 16 months of ownership of Archie I have noticed a more mature behaviour creeping in. Indeed he did us proud over Easter when we had 5 extra people staying including my mum, who isn't comfortable around animals. Most the time they comented that you wouldn't know he was there, well apart from the big sheepie sized rug licking their feet!
He still barks and runs to the door when the door bell is rung but he no longer jumps (well most of the time! ) at people.
When we are out and off lead he still wants to play with other dogs and people, but with strangers (canine and human) and people and dogs I know don't like him (not many) or elderly people, I always try to put him on the lead first, and calm him with a behave command, okay so occasionally he gets the drop on me and notices then he dashes over and then stands a short distance and wags his tail like mad. When I am moving on my way and he still wants to play normally a BYE then works and he'll leave them and come with me. This doesn't come over night just consistant daily reinforcement of what is expected of him. Good luck |
| I as well logged on to see if there was something different I could do to keep our Rufus under control when we meet new people or dogs. He's just turned two and otherwise is a joy to be around. He know all basic commands and is actually competing in Rally O. Hasn't qualified yet but that's ok. It's when we meet someone new that he looses it. I've noticed that the pink skin around his eyes gets very pink. That's my trigger that he's out of control and has a very hard time staying focused.
Rufus is our 3rd Sheepie and I do recall our other two going through this phase, I just can't remember how they got straighted out. Times were different back then, my children were very young and I think my husband and I had more control. |
Mmmmm, yes the evil red eye!! 
Tiggy gets that too. And for the same reason, it means she is all excited and silly. Too much blood to the brain maybe? And an all excited Tiggy is deaf! focus?? what's that? obedience?? never heard of it. |
| Ah, Winnie is SO excited to see everyone that she MUST jump on them. The only one who figured this out is my brother in law who walks into the house and totally ignores her until she settles down. She never jumps up on him and sits and waits for him to recognize her.
I think the training is for the people as much as for the dog. Every other person/family member comes in and immediately wants to embrace this fluffy beast. So, she jumps on them. So, maybe we should school our visitors as we work with our pups?? |
| Summer is exactly the same she just loves everyone! When we are out we say to folks who come to fuss her..she is in training, please dont stroke her she will jump up...some say fine and go..others say we dont mind we love dogs..they then get scratches up their arms and a wet face..I did warn them! |
| Sammy loves everyone too and loves greeting people when they come to the house but everyone that comes to visit now knows him and they all tell him to sit and then they will give him a pat and a scratch. When we are out and about he seems to know who wants to give him a pat and the tail will wag like mad but he now will sit while he is patted, the interesting thing is that when a young child wants to pat him he will sit perfectly still and make no attempt to jump or move towards them in anyway, its as if he knows that he could hurt them very easily.
Thankfully with Sammy we haven't had any behaviour problems and he is 4 next month. |
| i have a 8 month oes, they way we have taught her not to jump at people when they come to the door. is we put a 'house lead' on her when the door bell goes. when we answer the door we put our foot on the lead so she either has to sit or lie down. then the person at the door gives her attention. we did this for 2 weeks and now she sits at the door auto. |
| The thing that helped us with Jenny and jumping was what our trainer told us to do. As soon as she jumps up, immediately raise your knee straight up into her chest, not hard as to hurt, just enough to startle. Well after once or twice, Jenny didn't like that at all and doesn't jump any more. she still gets excited to see people, etc., but no more jumping. Another thing a Vet friend of ours told us to do before we even got Jenny, was to get her out among people as much as possible, i.e. taking her to Pet Smart or similar places. It does work, because we can walk her through there and she acts like she owns the place, with no jumping or pulling to get to people or the other dogs. Although she is ver receptive to people coming up to her and making a fuss. I always say Jenny is a "street angel" and a "house devil". |
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