jumping
my oes, truman, is the sweetest boy, but lately he has developed a jumping problem. when he's excited he jumps on me, sometimes knocking me over and usually bruising my tummy. he's not being agressive. his jumping is really confined only to me, which i find odd. sometimes he jumps on my boyfriend, but mostly just me. any ideas on how to stop this? |
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| Somewhere else on the forum (or maybe on the OES list) someone said that the breed likes to jump up to lick your face as part of their greeting behaviour!
I suppose it may be down to personal taste, but we quite like the affection of "sheepie kisses"!! If you don't want to be jumped on try a firm "NO" and/or stepping forward to put the dog off-balance as he jumps up - this kind of works with the Woofer.. |
Mikeyg wrote: Somewhere else on the forum (or maybe on the OES list) someone said that the breed likes to jump up to lick your face as part of their greeting behaviour!
Oh!! was a question that I asked the topic is "Food from Strangers and Excitement when visitors? Help" go and take a look as they gave me a lot of answers. What Mikeyg said is a good advice. Now Shanti does not jump a lot, only when people he knows but I shout NO and ask visitors to keep walking and don't look at him... hope helps. dani |
| Abbi doesn't jump on us now. But she still tries with visitors, especially if they are friendly towards her.
I think all dogs like to greet each other by licking each others faces or grabbing at the sides of each others faces/necks. Since we walk up higher than the dogs, they try to get up and personal to give us a good greeting. Of course, we would rather shake hands. So I have Abbi sit whenever anyone comes up to her so that she cannot jump. I already was very firm with her about not jumping up on me or family. But we go down to her level when we haven't seen her for a few hours or more and give her ear rubs and lots of hugs. Sometimes she just cannot help herself and tries to jump up when we rise, but I am pretty good at pushing her down before she actually goes all the way up. Interestingly, at 4 year old, Abbi never knocks anyone down when she jumps anymore. She is actually holding herself up and lightly touching others. Most of my 13 year-old daughters friends have comment on this. They marvel at how light she is, but she is actually walking on her rear legs. She just wants to say hi. Since not everbody undrstands, we are constantly reminding her to stay down. Stepping on the dog's back toes. keeping them off balance, a gentle knee in the chest, and other "corrections" will cure her from jumping on you. Since everyone doesn't do this, it will not prevent her from jumping up to greet them. If you watch small dogs they do it too. They are just so small it doesn't bother people as much. Whether it seems aggresive or not, your dog should never bruise you -- so do try to correct her or prevent her from jumping by getting her in sit position before you greet her. It is important that you are in control--not the dog. It makes for a happier dog too. They need to know who's boss at all times. And since you feed her, it is best if its you. Didn't mean to go authoritative, enjoy your dog. Just add control to the equation too and you will enjoy her even more! |
| Hey! My OES is named Truman also! By the way, he jumps too. We have tried several things, one of which is to hold on to his legs and make him walk backwards. He doesn't much care for the backward movement and usually quits jumping. Good luck! |
| Buckley is almost 2 now and rarely jumps up (only when we've been gone for a really a long time). When we first adopted him he'd jump up constantly. We started to turn our back to him and ignore his actions. After a couple of times doing this he stopped jumping when we come home. They want so badly to please us that it didn't take him long to get the picture...
Just my two cents, Cindy & the Monsters |
| That is so funny! I call Vivi my little monster. I have also tried walking her backwards, but that doesn't bother her. Its hard to keep to the training ritual because she is such an instigator. When she plays, she sounds like grover from sesame street. She gets me laughing so hard I can't breathe, but if I try to ignore her, and I am sitting on the computer, she will walk up and bite my side, step back and stare at me. I then swivel my chair to block her, and she trots over to the other side and bits me in the side or butt, steps back and looks at me, she continues this knowing I will eventually give in and wrestle with her. I then fall to the floor and give her what she wants, I have no self control! |
| hi ....it seems we all have the same problem with our OES, mine (Pisco) is a jumper ...when he knows we are going for a walk or a run...he starts jumping and won`t stop until his leash is shown to him or when i`m gone for too long he will wait for me and as soon as he sees me he starts jumping around me and on me ...and yes he aims at my face for a good hearty kiss.
vero. |
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