Hello, Buster my 6 month old will NOT stop jumping, he is fine with us at home, but when we take him places he jumps all over everyone, and is very hard to control. He is very hyper, i think thats in the breed? He is also very hard to walk on a leash., i know he is still a baby, but i dont know what else to do. He is very well behaved at home, but like i said when we go places he is terrible...please give me some advice! Thanks, Kelly from Wisconsin
HELP...my 6 month old wont quit jumping!
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Axel
Boxer Buddy
I know exactly what you mean, Axel is a few days away from being 6 months old and he does the exactly same thing. When we are at home he is most of the time calm but when someone comes to the door or we go somewhere its like he loses his mind and all he wants to do is jump on everyone. I hope this goes away as he gets older or I will never be able to have company over without putting him outside first.
BeckyNC
Boxer Insane
Tae is 1 1/2 and still a jump-aholic!! ...but we are working on it. I think it takes a lot of patience and perseverence to break a Boxer of the jumping habit. I leash her when someone comes over and have found that the best thing is to give the guest a treat and let them tell Tae to sit. There are other ways to handle this, though, and I've read about them in past threads. Try a search on "jumping," maybe.
Tae has also gotten better in the past few months about going nuts on walks. One thing that's helped recently is I ordered a SENSE-ation harness (softouchconcepts.com). Obviously, this is the lazy alternative, but it immediately helped with walking Tae. We had, though, already tried some techniques learned in obedience. I ran out of patience, and, to be honest, it was becoming physically difficult to control my sweet 40 lb girl!
Tae has also gotten better in the past few months about going nuts on walks. One thing that's helped recently is I ordered a SENSE-ation harness (softouchconcepts.com). Obviously, this is the lazy alternative, but it immediately helped with walking Tae. We had, though, already tried some techniques learned in obedience. I ran out of patience, and, to be honest, it was becoming physically difficult to control my sweet 40 lb girl!
Rlr.Giraffe
Banned
Honestly, the best thing I have found for Willis is to give him the "off" command when he does jump and then turn away and ignore him. 9/10 times when i turn around he is sitting patiently. I have even started making friends and family do it.
Chula's Moms
Banned
We're sharing some of the same frustrations with our 6 month old. We are trying very hard to break her of the habit, but it's difficult because she doesn't jump on us. It's when we're out walking and she's excited to see people. We're using the "off" command, but since we don't use it much (because she doesn't jump at home) she's been slow to pick it up. We keep working on it and have gotten to know when she's about to jump so we say "off" before she does it. I'm not sure if that's the right approach, but it does seem to be getting a bit better.
Scorpio
Boxer Insane
Use the search button at the top of the page, this has been covered so many times before, there is a lot of info on jumping. This link is very good also.
http://www.boxerworld.com/puppy/jumping/
colleen
http://www.boxerworld.com/puppy/jumping/
colleen
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Kiwi_Storm
Boxer Booster
Storm (7 months) used to be really bad at jumping on people when they came to the house. I now find if I tell the person straight away to ignore her for the first 15 mins or so then she will calm down straight away. She sees that they are not interested in her so isn't so crazy. It is when people ignore my suggestion and talk to her in high pitch that she is all over them.
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