Prevent Your Boxer from Jumping on People & Furniture

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Melanie McLeroy with Taurus Training for Expert Village and we’re going to train a boxer puppy today. We discovered in our training session on come, that this boxer puppy can be quite a jumper when the human has something that she want. So I’m going to work on jumping and show you a couple… good, a couple of ways to get a handle on this. Now this is the finished product. You really want your dogs to sit and pay attention to you rather on been jumping on you for attention. Jumping is a very rude behavior. I’m not going to respond, good, at all to this boxer puppy when she jumps except to turn away and move in to her, good. And I’m going to constantly positively reinforce the behavior that I want. I can also try to preempt her, good, by little puppy when I think she is about to jump give her little signal or, okay. She looks like she’s going to jump, sit, good. And I’m going to reward her with what she wants, so I’m using a combination of ignoring the behavior because I don’t want to positively reinforce jumping and some body language to show her that is inappropriate and I’m not going to back up and let her invade my space. And using a hand signal or the actual command to show her what I want her to do instead of jumping and then I reward her with food, with attention, affection or with hedgehog little puppy, good. So this little boxer puppy has already learned jumping is not how she gets the hedgehog, sitting is the way to go. It’s important that we teach our dogs, boxer puppy, older dogs what we want them to do before they start exhibiting the inappropriate behavior. That’s called setting them up to succeed, right Indy. "