I also shun them to stop jumping, this sometimes means I have to turn in a circle to keep my back to them, but I also try to walk away and look in the fridge or something else that seems interesting.
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I just turn my body so they fall off and go back to what I was doing or stare up into the sky or wherever. A verbal correction of any kind tends to just get the shelter dogs more amped up. They see it as attention and most have heard it with no correction for so long it's just background noise.
In most cases I'm working on getting a sit so I continue to lure them to a sit and only reward them when they are in a sit. Eventually they learn that jumping doesn't get anything and sitting(self control) is the way to get all sorts of fun things to happen. I still have one dog who will tackle me to try and get the treat bag and a few who are so polite about it that I don't mind it but for the most part I can come out clean even when it's muddy in the play yards.
You can condition a dog to discontinue unwanted behavior by using a glance-with-attitude, a sound of disgust, by ignoring the dog, etc. Body language is a wonderful tool. But body language presumes a higher level of training interaction with the dog, in my opinion.
I like that perspective. The whole idea why shun should work is because the dog just wants to please and have fun...
Thank you all for your ideas, I'll use them all until I find one that works for us....I do work with him as much as I can. I keep him from jumping on others by putting his leash on him if he even acts like he wants to jump. More than not I'm usually the only person he jumps on. I am going to start taking his leash with me to work and as soon as I get out of the car I'm going to put it on him. Other than the jumping hes a good dog, we walk everyday and he is amazing in his walking, with no formal training of any kind, he walks next to me and does not pull what so ever, pays no attention to other people or dogs.
He is very attached to me, when I'm home hes next to me every minute of the day, he sleeps with me also.....god I havent been in the bathroom alone for a year, when I do block him he will sit at the door and mouth the door knob until I come out...again thanks so much from both Jethro and myself.
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What I have done is raising my knee when the dog jumps up. He lands with his chest on my knee, can´t balance off me (or kick me in the stomach or face with his paws- depending on the size) and then I give the cold shoulder. My dobie was really into jumping up when I got her at one year and this was the thing that worked like a charm. To my great surprise it also worked on a dog as small as a dachshund that I have staying with me for a few months. Today I have a reflex- an overly eager dog comes my way and the leg rises automatically :P but it has probably saved me from a few good gut punches from the dogs of my friends...
thanks Jaana I've tryed that it doesnt work for him.....but today I went away and I was prepared....I had a small piece of turkey in my pocket.....when I came in and he seen me I told him to sit and he looked at me for a min and I said sit boy and he did and I gave him the bit of meat.....it worked......
Damn it!
I'm going to have a fit if my question isn't answered Michele!
'As much as I can', says nothing. Or maybe it it says everything, which means you do nothing at all with the dog.
I don't know about anyone else here but the dogs I normally have don't worry about turned backs, or squeezed paws, or ignored indifference and the last time someone put a knee into one of my dogs because she was a jumping pup was lucky to get out with all his skin (if I'd been a 1/2 second later, it would've been to late).
Anyways, it takes more then a sit command and a piece of meat to satiate a driven GSD.
The kind of attention getting behavior described in the op from a juvenile toward it's owner indicates to me there's more going on then we're being told.
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thanks Jaana I've tryed that it doesnt work for him.....but today I went away and I was prepared....I had a small piece of turkey in my pocket.....when I came in and he seen me I told him to sit and he looked at me for a min and I said sit boy and he did and I gave him the bit of meat.....it worked......
Being proactive works! With older dogs I've often done what Howard suggested and just walk into them. It's quite effective.
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