Teach Your Dog To Stop Jumping Up In 2 Simple Steps!

so guys welcome back to family k9 training and today we are joined with bertie who is here with me for an intensive day of training to work on a variety of issues he's a six-month-old working line labrador and he has become a bit of a nightmare for his owners for a variety of reasons one of them being just how badly he's jumping up people everybody everyone he meets while he's out on walks in the home and he is growing up he's a young lad he's not huge yet but he's already at a size where if he jumps up children or elderly people he is causing damage and the bigger he gets the worse that's going to be which is why jumping is one of those behaviors that for me i have zero tolerance on because i've seen the damage that even dogs medium to large sized dogs like labradors can do they put people in hospital all the time so we are going to address this very quickly as fairly as possible and we're going to let him understand that from now on unfortunately that can't happen because i love him and i've got a duty of care to help him understand that that behavior is no longer acceptable now as much as it absolutely tortures me to allow him to do that because we're filming this i want you to see the process and with jumping up it is one of those behaviors that can be dealt with really quickly and again i'm fighting every part of my being to not deal with it right there because i want to explain the principle of how you need to do it we need to let him know that all four on the floor is a good thing all the time and jumping up is never acceptable so when he has four on the floor that's when we can praise him reward him and give him treats when he jumps up like that i'm going to very swiftly let him know hey that is not acceptable utilizing a correction and again when i utilize physical corrections i use my free questions to work out whether it is ethically acceptable to utilize a physical correction is the dog causing harm to himself is the dog causing harm to others or is the dog causing significant property damage in this situation yes the dog is causing harm to others so yes i'm going to use physical correction the physical correction i'm going to use is going to be the minimum amount of correction possible to achieve the desired outcome and i'm going to use pavlovian pairing or classical conditioning to pair that physical correction with a verbal correction so that as quickly as possible we can remove and stop using the physical correction but we're left with a powerful verbal correction that carries weight that helps the dog understand what not only is acceptable but in this situation what isn't acceptable so in this situation we're going to use move over to a tool that's much better suited to fixing this problem and that is my trusty slip lead so i'm going to swap over from a normal flat collar which can cause much more damage to the trachea for terms of pulling and jumping behaviors than a tool like a slip lead can then i'm going to get a glamorous assistant in where we're going to essentially allow bertie to jump up and then going to swiftly let him know hey no we don't do that we're going to repeat that when he learns that behavior and realizes oh i don't do that anymore i'll keep all four on the floor then we're going to pay him and praise him and let him know great job buddy and very quickly the amount of times we need to correct him is going to go straight down and the amount of times we can reward him and praise him are going to saw through the roof and then we're going to be left with a dog that doesn't jump up that displays beautiful manners that therefore allows us to praise and reward him matt if you could graciously come into shot for us and what i'm going to do is i'm simply going to bring go over and meet matt like i would anybody that's coming into my home or we're meeting in public if bertie makes a bad decision i'm going to physically correct him but you'll notice i pair it with a verbal correction that is going to have widespread knock-on ramifications so that'll be excellent and then very quickly we're going to repeat this and you'll see just how quickly the jumping behavior can come down when you address it swiftly but fairly so you stay there matt yes good boy good boy so i corrected it swiftly then he offered me a different behavior which i paid him and rewarded him for let's practice that drill again let's see where we get to one correction so far same again this time avoiding that better next time i'm going to do a rep and i'm going to ask matt to kind of just get his attention oh boy hi bertie hello good boy and there we go offering me the desirable behavior first because he has very quickly gone through basic learning theory if he displayed a behavior that he was corrected for that behavior happened less frequently now he's offering a different behavior that he's been rewarded for so that behavior is happening more frequently so you can see bertie isn't upset with me i've not hurt his feelings we're actually building a wonderful relationship and a relationship that's now being built off my leadership because i'm able to communicate to him clearly so the act of correcting him hasn't done anything negative to him nor has it done anything negative to our relationship i would argue that it's actually furthering our relationship now we're going to do one more rep before we move on to more advanced jumping work and this time i'm going to ask matt to really get quite hyped up and get quite high energy and we'll see where we're at let's go need a little scratch you scratch that ear come on let's go oh no oh straight away already offering much better solutions wonderful then let's go good boy so now we're going to take a level up people being taller you can see just how quickly that can get addressed and bertie you're doing such a great job but what gets difficult is when people start to come down to the dog's level when you start coming down to them oh good boy again offering me better behaviors because i'm rewarding those better behaviors work with me look up good boy yes better lovely classic example very very swiftly let him know hey don't do that and that is a classic example of what i was talking about when you start to come down to a dog's level and then coming back up it's very challenging for them not to want to follow you what many people call it the shark attack you saw a mini version of it there which was excellent for me to be able to address it i'll see if i can get him to do it again but you've seen so now we're on two corrections one was sterner at the start that one was a much lower level correction so i'm going to come down i've got a treat in my hand i'm coming back up yes and he's offering me a much better choice that time because of the second correction i'm communicating clearly to him what i do want and what i don't want this is what i do want i'm letting you know great job if you were to jump up me i'm letting you know that's what i don't want pairing it with my verbal correction so i can get to a point where i don't need the physical anymore this is a good example he knows there's a treat here i'm gonna let him have a little sniff he's being very well mannered with it i'm gonna bring it up oh good boy yes i'm gonna come down to him i'm gonna come up oh yes good boy practice principal now he's offering me much better choices so again you can see his demeanor have not upset him he's still a very happy pooch he's still engaged and wants to work for me and he's still offering me lovely behaviors because we're working through the process so what we're going to do now is because he knows i've got the food we're going to bring matt back in but this time we're going to emulate a situation where you've got that member of the public you all know who they are sorry do you mind not my dogs in oh and before you realize it oh you're so cute and they're getting your dog super hyped up getting them really excited and then they go to step away and the dog follows and jumps and it makes you look like the idiot but it's a good thing to work through to help your dog understand what we do want in real life situations and what we don't want in real life situations so i'm going to ask matt just to come back in good bertie oh yeah good boy oh good boy yes we're meeting mr crazy lunatic out in public yes yes better yes good boy then i'm gonna come in that was my favorite wrap of all of them even though it wasn't absolutely perfect the reason i love that so much is because bertie made the decision in his mind he went to do an old habit and then he caught himself and stopped that shows that this is becoming a learnt behavior of how any correction from me is already learning we have made huge progress with jumping up in as little as 10 to 15 minutes will it be fixed forever no so i have done the majority of work when the owner comes back at the end of this intensive day i'm going to show them what we've done i'm going to let them know how they do it now when he goes back into old environments with the people there he's been allowed to do it he will start to test and do it again but as long as they're very quick and with good timing implement what i've implemented you'll go yeah i know what this thing is and with practice practice practice i always talk about the importance of calm consistent leadership so from this moment on in this dog's life every single time he jumps up it will be addressed in that fashion however every single time he makes better decisions and doesn't jump up he'll be rewarded and praised for doing so it's the essence of balance that's good leadership so that's consistent leadership but we also talk about the importance of calm consistent leadership bertie you eating grass are you eating grass buddy that's it oh good boy so when it comes to the calm consistent leadership whenever we administer corrections i'm not doing it out of anger i'm not doing it out of frustration i'm doing it from a place of calm loving leadership i'm administering it quickly fairly enough to achieve the desired outcome but in a calm fashion that way i can communicate efficiently with my dog that way my dog understands what it is that i want from him and it furthers our relationship as opposed to harming our relationship and that is the essence of balance so if you're having trouble with your dog jumping that is exactly how i would go about it you have to make the dog understand that there's consequences to his actions if his actions are going to cause you or other people physical harm but you do it from a place of calm consistent and loving leadership but you also make sure that you praise reward but you also make sure that you praise and reward when they are offering the desirable behavior because that's fair to our dogs and you will be shocked just how quickly the bad behaviors disappear and those desirable behaviors are left so if this video was useful and you found it 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Length: 11min 27sec (687 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 26 2021