Jumping up on kids

[tesster]

Kind of. You don't praise her for not jumping. Jumping up on you when you return home is a dominant and rude behavior. A subordinate pack member would not behave this way towards the alpha. By ignoring the behavior, you're showing the dog that you are in charge. You will accept their affection on YOUR terms, not theirs.

When you come home, just act as if you don't know she's there until she's behaving in an appropriate way. Turn your back on her when she jumps. Don't say anything, don't look at her, just turn your back and go about your chores for 10 minutes. Walk around, read your mail, put a load of laundry in, whatever you would do if you didn't have a crazy dog jumping on you. I've found it easier not to sit down during this time, because it's fairly impossible to behave as if you're unaware of a 60lb dog in your lap.

When she's been calm for about 5 minutes, you call her to you and then give her affection and attention.

It takes some time. My Tess picked it up right away and never jumps anymore. Conner, my anxious critter, is taking a bit more time.

 

[mydreemdog]

Thankyou everyone for your input. I had never heard of a jumping harness before and I don't think I would use one anyway. He is still small and learning quite well. I am the one who has not had to deal with the large puppy/ small children thing before. I have had puppies before but not together with the little kids. I thought maybe others know things that I hadn't tried yet. My husband and I have been working with Rookie on the ignoring thing these last few days. I think he may already be getting the idea as he doesn't seem to jump as long or persistently as he previously did. It sure is nice being part of this wonderfull group who understand and have such informative ideas and opinions. Thank you all again.

 

[Rocks mom]

We ignore Rock when we come in so he has stopped jumping on us right away (kids too they learned this real quick as he could and would knock them on their butts) for the most part but of course there are the times that I have walked in and said hello right away and got bowled over, not his fault but mine because I broke the rules. But at the same time I have small neices and nephews that are terrified to come inside till I have him put in my BR because he jumps on them. But horror story...my brother-in-law had the audacity to walk into my house and thump Rock on the nose and scream no at him because he jumped on him. I thought I would kill him before he left my house and he didn't come back for a long time...anyway, now he allows Rock to jump on him for fear that I will rip his head off. It takes time and patience and people who are willing to participate and try.

 

[SammiRajah]

I too have this problem with jumping and small children, so I definately plan on getting the book. In the mean time, I have a quick question. Sammi and Rajah love to jump on my niece, who can't seem to just ignore or turn away from them. She gets too upset and is afraid of getting hurt, so she'll take off running to get away, which makes them think she's playing with them.

So we've been intervening and telling them "No!" and making them sit until they calm down. This helps the situation somewhat, but I don't think they learn not to jump because they always start up again later. So I guess my question is if you have a child who is too excited to ignore them, is there a better way to handle the situation?

 

[Brynn]

Every Boxer we have ever had has jumped on everyone. It took a lot of work to train them not to and they still do it sometimes. For my puppy I am absolutely going to get that book. I have heard really great things about it.

 

[heartsong12]

I agree with everyone else. Diabla is a jumper and she will not jump on the people who ignore her. I have been working with her for a while. I have two nieces on that is 3 and one that is 4. I finally found a way that worked with Diabla and the kids. When D was calm, I had the oldest walk her thru her commands. I worked with the kids on how best to use thier voices and tone to help D understand it was not play time. I gave the child the treats and with close supervision, I showed Maile how to work with her. She would give D treats when she obeyed the command and worked with D to the point that D listens better to my 4 year old niece (with or with out treats now) better than anyone else but me. I really don't know if this was the best way to handle it, but my thought was Diabla needed to understand that the childern where not equals to her and not fair game to box and play rough with. I wanted D to understand that she she had to listen to the kids as much as me. I really has helped. The kids love to play with her now and she is better about jumpping on other. I still have to work with her when it comes to the people "enjoy" her jumpping.

I also get the response that it is okay. And I always reply NO it is not. I don't want her to do to childern what she does to you. I am training her to be able to interact with kids and it is important to help her learn to be calm.

Sorry it is so long. I hope it helps

 

[Jankind]

Ignoring method

Our little one (Barkley) has only been home since Saturday and although he already adores our one year old daughter, he does jump up on her when he gets too hyper. Last night he even got in a pretty good running drop kick!
We have been using the ignoring method with almost instant results. I will also agree that this has to be an ongoing effort from everyone involved or he will go right back to jumping up.

 

[jimmyjones]

I have to agree on the aspect of involving kids in training, it is working great with my 3 year old, jimmy responds to my litle girl first time every time at present (she is so persistent in her training !!!), I guessit would be alittle more difficult with a younger child though ? Perhaps it would help if the toddler fed the pup (making sure the dog learns to sit and wait) and always make sure the dog walks through the door BEHIND everybody including kids. I also never let jimmy 'barge' past anybody includng my little girl, I stop him the moment I see he is likely to do it. This way, whilst it might be difficult for a younger child to participate in command training, the dog is getting signals about pack order ?

Good Luck

 

[Nina Burgers]

June used to be really bad about this too, especially with kids. I started taking her to childrens parks, on the leash, and making her sit before the kids would pet her.
I would ask the kids if they wanted to help train my new puppy and they would be so excited. The kids would tell her to sit and if she didn't they would turn around and step back.
This has been a big help, maybe it will work for you.
As far as the dog jumping at a baby in somones arms, we used the "not yours" command and a recall.