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Duncan's DAD

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My 2yr old Boxer Duncan has never had a jumping problem. Recently we rescued another 2yr old Boxer Roxie. It seems that Roxie is driving Duncan to jump on strangers just to see whats going on. Duncan has never jumped but Roxie has been I don't know what to do. Any advice would be very helpful thanks.
 
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mmichaelson

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Duncan's DAD said:
My 2yr old Boxer Duncan has never had a jumping problem. Recently we rescued another 2yr old Boxer Roxie. It seems that Roxie is driving Duncan to jump on strangers just to see whats going on. Duncan has never jumped but Roxie has been I don't know what to do. Any advice would be very helpful thanks.
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If you work with clicker training (or not) this is a great tool. Put your pup on a lead and tie them to something - fence door, etc, while you work on this. Keep treats and clicker in hand and walk up to your baby, talkign to them and trying to get them to jump with your excitement. When they DO jump (as they inevitably will) just turn and walk away very quickly - don't say anything at all. Keep trying until they learn and when they do - click and treat immediately and make a big deal out of it. If you keep working at it - automatic ignore when they jump, they will learn not to.

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We did this with Sam during puppy kindergarten, and it cured him of his jumping.
 
Tucker's Mom

Tucker's Mom

Super Boxer
Wow...I was just about to post a similar question. Tucker has always jumped, but usually you can tell him "down" before he actually jumps and he'll stop. But, now that he's hit the teenage years, he has stopped listening. He jumped on me last night and knocked the breath out of me! (He's huge now - 70 lbs and still growing.)
 
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mmichaelson

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Every now and then we have to do the exercise I mentioned above to remind Sam, but it has pretty much curbed all jumping. Even with strangers and <gasp> kids. :) It's worth a try, even w/o a clicker it should work ok.
 
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Stefan

Boxer Booster
they also make no jump harness' that go behind their hind legs inorder to stop them before they even jump.
 
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