Tips for Stopping a Dog from Jumping on you in excitement? - Page 1

Before I go to more extreme measures.....  Cirberus is such an excitable, bouncy dog.....  She jumps all over everything.   The problem with her jumping is that she jumps up on me in excitement and with fully body weight.  I have tried many things, but they do not seem to really be working.   Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Here is what I have tried.
1. She gets no attention until she is in a sit position.  This works when she really wants my attention, so we are getting somewhere.   The problem is she has learned that she needs to sit to get my attention (a good thing), but she has not carried this to "don't jump on me at all."
2.  Leaning in to catch her off balance when she jumps up.   Now she is jumping up and not necessarily directly on me, but she will be jumping all around me and hit my arm/shoulder, which is really not a good thing.
3.  Bopping her on the head (NOT HARD, for the Peta activists )  She now thinks that is a game to dodge the bop.
4.  Knee in her chest.  She is just to quick and never comes straight on for this.

I hope I explained this well.

Is she doing this on leash or off? Because if she has a leash on i would make a point to step on leash but not say anything. When she jumps up she will get a self correction, while you her loving owner are doing nothing. I mentioned stay quite and motionless because you want her to make the mistake and correct herself.
I also will step into my idiot dog if they jump up at me and knock them off balance, and i do it hard. (I'm fairly small, 5'5" and abut a buck 30) My dog weighs about 70 lbs and can easily jump face height. Very annoying!
Kneeing in the chest never worked well for me. Bopping on the head with hand got me a fractured wrist. 
So i say use the leash it's your best defence. If she's jumping while your trying to work her a good correction by yanking the leash down and slightly to the side has worked well with my nutty dogs.
Good luck and don't let her get away with it.
Fry

P.S.
PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals?

Tank used to do that jump and bear hug you (one of many reason his previous owners gave him up)
I was working on jumping issue (knee to a chest, whack on the head - did not work, i was working on the correction w/ leash ) when i had my both lips busted and a bloody nose when he jumped when i was about to bend down to pick up a leash (he didn't feel a thing, i was a bloody mess)....next time he jumped my foot went up - i was dead serious about not getting hurt again and my foot went right into his lower belly/crotch area, knocked air out of him....he has not jumped on me sense...he will jump on others once in a great while but not with me arround...so...be careful...

What I found worked for me when one of our big males used to jump up is to GENTLY step on their hind foot - not slam down on their toes or grind down on them; just enough pressure to make a point. Sorted out the problem for us straight away. Good luck.

I agree with working this out on leash with standard choke chain.
Either step on the least or hang the dog briefly.
The knee never works, but a good kick down below does.
Never strike a dog on the head.
Corrections that are weak do more harm than good.
It's a fine line between too little and too much, you don't want to injure the dog, but you want the correction to sink in.
I know it's harder for smaller people to hang a dog but the trick is to turn and pull the dog over your shoulder from behind, it doesn't have to be for a long time just long enough for the dog to realize your in control.
If the dog wants to jump on someone else while on the leash pull hard enough to spin the dog around.
Sounds hard but it's not, and it's better than letting the dog harm you are someone else.
Prepare set ups to train don't wait for an opportunity, create your own with a helper.
Corrections must be swift, timing is everything.


 

Lots of good advice to try.    I did forget something, this only happens when she is off leash.  On-leash, no issue at all (she has been trained that leash means work time and do not be goofy). 

Lightly stepping on the back foot might be the key.  I will try that this evening.

Usually this type of thing starts out early and isn't a problem until the dog gets older and larger, by then it's a bad habit learned.
Stepping on a rear foot might work if you can find it and manage to step on it while being jumped on, but it is not a correction in itself.
I understand what your saying about off leash hence the set ups while on leash.
Do what you will.

 

Funny. My girl has learned not to jump on me, but continues to do so on visitors. I would sometimes grab her by her skin and fur between her lower jaw and ears with both hands, one on either side, as she jumped up and would keep her up on her back feet as I looked her in the eye saying "No." Once I said that, I gently lowered her into a sitting position while still holding onto her fluff and made her do a short sit-stay before releasing her.

This has worked with my last 4 GSDs. When they are old enough and start to jump, I gently  pinch in between toes where it is webbed. and place their paws on the ground saying no.  They get it real fast. They wont jump on the door either. Only have to do it a short period of time. It has not inhibited any training on the field. If I pat my belt, they jump up gently after they know thats the only way they can do it.

Little hard to explain this technique.  Basically it allows the dog to self correct.

Slowly rotate in place.  When you rotate, exaggerate the motion of your legs below the knee so that your heels are almost hitting the backs of your thighs.  When your dog tries to jump on you, they will run into your heels and get a "kick".

My terrier used to jump up and push off me with his front paws, catching me right in the nads.  He will still jump up, but he does it far enough away so that he doesn't make contact.