Recently Marco started jumping on the side of the ex pen and now that he's 44lbs. at 19 weeks old it's not going to be long before he tears it up or goes over the top of it. I'm guessing there's some way to marker train him out of this but I can't figure out how. I don't think it's lack of excersize. It seems to be mostly like when I just got home from work. He's excited, wants to get to me. Times like that. Or like last night. We had my father in law over for dinner. Didn't want to confine him to the crate so we put him in the ex pen. New person over, he wants attention. That sort of thing. Do we just have to crate him at these times? I'd rather not if I don't have to.
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quick and dirty response ?
any time he jumps on the pen , say no . turn your back on him .
when he is off the fence , mark and reward .
helps if you have either a mirror , or glass or some other reflective surface so you can see what he is doing so you can mark promptly . or have another person signal you discreetly .
sure you want to play with him when you get home too , but he doesn't get out until he waits nicely to get out . you open the door , he goes for it , you close the door on his face . any forward movement and he gets the gate . repeat until he gets the idea that he doesn't get out until you get the behaviour you want and then you mark it . same drill with the crate ; might even be easier to start the behaviour with the crate .
He's perfect in the crate. If he's been in there for a few hours and doesn't get let out right away he may start to wine very softly, but not much. The pen is the only issue.
I have been making him sit before he comes out and he doesn't move until I say o.k. It's leading up to that point and only when I get home and my wife has had him in the pen or someone unusual comes over and he's in there. Other than that, he's fine in the pen too. I have been trying "no" when he does it. Doesn't seem to sink in. I'll try marking and rewarding when he calms down and see if that helps.
Assuming he doesn't need to go immediately outside to pee when you get home, how about asking for a sit and when given, toss in one of the treat cubes in which he has to push around to get the goodies to fall out? Keep him occupied while you have a few minutes to change, etc... before calmly letting him out to go outside? Same with folks coming over - train him that this does not mean he gets to come out but that this is when he gets the magical, treat toy. Just a thought - others will offer more. Regardless, only allow out of the xpen when he is offering the behavior you want and increase that duration by tossing in little tidbits. That which we allow we train. Which is why my husband has a GSD which is insane about the garden hose... deep sigh.
My 11 week old GSD pup does the same thing, but only when it's around meal time since I feed him in the expen. He is slowly getting it, since I turn my back, walk a few steps away and ignore him when he starts jumping up and howling. When I do that, he will quiet down and offer a sit. Then I go in and put his bowl down. However, when I am preparing his food he still goes bonkers and jumps up and moves the expen across the room. I think that the food prep stage is still a bit too much distraction for him. We're working on it though!
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Jumping on ex pen
#363728 - 07/09/2012 02:51 PM 
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Which is why my husband has a GSD which is insane about the garden hose... deep sigh. 
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