Dogs jumping up on people is at best an embarrasing and annoying habit, at worst a danger for all involved.

what starts out as a cute habit in young puppies can escalate into a big problem that can be difficult to correct. If you can’t stand your much loved dog jumping up on you, just imagine what visitors to your home must think.

Dog Jumping Up - Annoying: Jumps all over you every time you come home, on visitors to your home and just when you’ve put on freshly cleaned and ironed pants.

Dog Jumping Up - Dangerous: Any small child or elderly person who crosses path with your dog. Depending on the size of your dog, anyone could be in danger of being knocked off their feet, or worse.

Why Do Our Dogs Jump Up On People?

- Excitement, they’re just showing you that they are happy to see you.

- Your dog could be seeking attention.

- To assert dominance over you or guests.

General Tips For Correcting Dog Behavior Problems - Jumping Up

- Start as early as you can. It’s much easier to prevent behavior problems such as jumping up than to modify an existing habit.

- Punishing or hitting a dog for jumping up just doesn’t make sense and will never work. Your goal, and your best chance of stopping your dog from jumping up is to clearly communicate that jumping up is always unacceptable behavior.

- Never reward a dog that jumps up on people by giving them the attention they are seeking.

- You have to send a consistent message to your dog in all circumstances. Make it simple for your dog and eliminate any confusion. This means that everybody who comes into contact with your dog has to reinforce the same message. It’s pointless if you give your dog a cuddle and attention when he jumps up on you, but then yell at him when he jumps on a delivery man.

How To Stop Your Dog From Jumping Up

Depending on what stage you’re at with the jumping up problem, you should find one of these training techniques will do the trick. In most cases you will see some positive results in a matter of days. These are my favorite methods which I have successfully used to stop my dogs from jumping:

- When you see that your dog is ready to launch up at you, turn your body away from him. This will make your dog miss you, or at the very least deflect him off you. During this process don’t make any eye contact with your dog and don’t say a thing. Ignore your dog and make it clear to him that when he jumps he gets nothing from you. When your dog has settled down and stops jumping you then initiate some contact with him. Get down to his level and lavish him with praise and a nice scratch behind the ear. If you are consistent and persistent with this method, your dog will soon learn that staying on all four legs is a much better alternative!

- The next method is the one I prefer to use with my dogs. In situations where your dog is excitable and prone to jumping up, give him something else to do. In these situations I instruct my dogs to “sit” - this is sometimes referred to as “alternate behavior training”. So instead of jumping around like lunatics, my dogs sit patiently awaiting my attention (which I always reward them with).

- Many dog trainers use and recommend correcting jumping up problems with a pinch collar (sometimes called a prong collar). This technique is most suitable for bigger, strong willed breeds like German Shepherds and Rottwheilers. The key is to leave the pinch collar on whenever you are around your dog and have a short leash attached to it. At the moment your dog jumps, give a short sharp snap downwards on the leash. This tightens the collar and creates a negative association to your dog. It is said to replicate the correction that dogs use between themselves. Never pull on the leash for more than a second or two, and never hurt your dog. When used the right way the pinch collar should not leave a mark on your dogs neck. Your dog will learn very quickly that when he jumps up on people, it will be an unpleasant experience.

The good thing about jumping up problems in dogs is that they are usually an easy fix. As long as you are determined to correct the problem and follow the above training techniques you should be on the right track.

If you want to find yourself a puppy there are a few avenues which you can look into, to get a puppy. Pet stores are one of these avenues which you can investigate, as are the various puppy breeders who are around. If you’re looking for a puppy however, then puppy breeders are actually one of the better avenues for you to look into.

This is not as difficult as you might believe since there will be many puppy breeders whom you can find. If puppy breeders are the path that you’re thinking of taking in order to get your perfect canine companion, there are few things that you need to look into just as with anything else in this world.

The first of these is to decide which type of puppy you want to have. Most puppy breeders specialize in one or two different breeds only. So if you’re looking for a Labrador puppy, then going to a Beagle puppy breeder won’t get you any nearer your goal.

After you decide which type of puppy you want to have then it’s a matter of narrowing down the puppy breeders in your area to the few who breed the type of puppy you want.

The next thing that you want to do will be to take a look over the establishment of your prospective puppy breeders, because the last thing that you want to do is to get a puppy from a poorly disguised puppy mill. You will want to investigate this fact thoroughly before getting your puppy from one of these breeders as although most puppy breeders are not running a puppy mill, there will be a few out there who do so.

You will want to avoid these for a number of reasons one of the main being that you can never be assured of the health of a puppy obtained from a puppy mill. Besides which the conditions in which the puppies and the breeding dogs live in are just disgraceful. Sanitation, health and hygiene are not high on a list which comprises mainly of getting the most out of the dogs and the puppies.

The other thing that you will want to look into is the overall character of the puppy breeders themselves. If they care about their puppies they will generally also have as many if not more questions for you, as you do for them regarding your ability to look after and give the puppy a good home.

This is a perfectly normal response that many responsible puppy breeders have. After all they didn’t breed their puppies just to give it away to someone who will abuse it did they? These are the best type of puppy breeders. You know they care and you can be almost 100% certain that they will not be running a puppy mill.