Hi, I have posted before about My Tibetan Terriers overt friendliness (she is 7 mths) and have done my level best to stop her jumping up at everyone we meet, but of course they say it doesn't matter as they love dogs, so its not hugely successful. I knew I was going to have problems if anyone came to stay, and sure enough now that my Mother in Law is here for a week, Molly will not leave her alone! She can't wait to see her in the mornings and despite being told no and to leave her alone, she waits till we are out of the room and makes a beeline for her, my in-law does,nt want her to jump on her as she is quite old and Molly has sharp claws. How does one really bring home to a dog, short of smacking her, that it has got to stop? Hope you can help, Jane.

Jane ..I have had the same problem with my dog ..just too darned friendly What we have started to do is , when someone comes in the house ..whoever it is , we tell them they are to ignore him completely ..not even look at him. At the same time I tell him to sit then down ..then when he is down I fuss him up , tell him how good he is etc etc....after a while he loses interest and stays there ...at the moment he will STILL get up to the person if I go out of the room and he thinks I dont know ..but we are getting there slowly but surely ..outside of course it is the same thing ..when we are walking him ..I sometimes have to hold him down but usually people will leave him alone if you explain he is a puppy and is being trained . Oh yes ....and trim her claws ...



HTH

Melody

You say "short of smacking her".....but why not? It may just be the short sharp shock she needs!

Hi

Please dont smack her. As an owner of 4 tts I know that smacking is not the answer. TT's are very intelligent and quick to learn and please so please try using Melodys methods
Carol

Hi thanks for advice. You are quite right about TT's, they are most unlikely to respond to smacking ,but as to being quick to learn I,m not so sure! At seven months and toilet training to the book, she has just peed right in front of me in the living room, she knows its wrong because she hides when I say Molly! whats this! but as this isn't the first time and is so blatant I presume she still hasn,t worked out why she gets praised when she goes outside. I meet people all the time who say their puppys haven't had an accident in the house from about 8 weeks and I wonder if Molly is ever going to get it. She is dry all night though, it just seems to be the evenings when she has drunk a bowl of water with her dinner. Am trying not to get despondent.

Peaches

She might not know that she did something wrong (peeing in the wrong place), but may be responding to your tone of voice.

(take what I say with a grain of salt - I'm still waiting for my first puppy, so don't really know if I'm right) :D

Butter

Dogs only indicate to you that they realise you're angry when they appear to 'know it's wrong because they..' This is not an indication of knowing anything other than your body language says you're not happy - so they use their own body language to try and appease you.

Obviously not THAT quick to learn!!!!!!!!!

No she is not that quick to learn, in fact at the moment I have decided she will never learn!We have also just removed from her the feet of my Mother in Law for the one millionth time. Nothing deters her, nothing lessens her desire to jump up at her . Time to open another bottle of wine I think.

Hi well Zac breed is laid back and not to friendly poor cleo's mum he would not leave her alone
we seem to think Zac was bounced on his head at birth ,now little freddie more true to his breed
he is laid back sleeps on the window ledge as well .

Pat x

just a big adolescent bundle of fur!
How is he doing after his trim?
Solo (the new pup) wasn't overly keen on the whole crating idea, but he is getting used to it slowly... Its great though cos he whines at about 4 in the morning if he wants to go to the toilet, so i look about 20 yeras older now due to lack of sleep!
Alex

Hi Alex

Zac look's well what can I say like a mop!! the triimmer got the cut all wrong [lol]
he left Zac with a thick skirt and short saddle back my husband on seeing Zac
said to me he is having a laugh he don't want paying I was laughing so much at Zac
but next time he will get it correct .What a great name you have for the puppie
Freddie first solo flight on Monday should be fun he hates the lead as well.
O what fun to own dog's And still gettin up at 5am for Zac first wall to baby sit Freddie
the worl end's when Zac goes for a walk and Freddie left out .

good luck nice week-end Patxx

we have again got 10 little ducklings and four cat's and three magpies all waiting to have
the ducklings which are now boxed up waiting since lunch time for a free lift by the r.s.p.c.a.

Supply your mum-in-law with a tin lid or oven tray. When the pup gets too close she bangs the lid on her own knee. The noise startles the pup and he doesn't jump up! That's what I was told at training class. It does work in certain cases. My dog is afraid of the vaccum cleaner (for no good reason) so I sometimes get visitors to sit with the vaccum tube at the side of them. Either that or the tray works for me!

I'll give it a go. Actually my Mother in Law reached for her magazine for no other reason than to look at it when Molly was there, and she hi-tailed it out of there quick smart! Puppy that is! So I might exploit that one a bit, trouble is I don't want to make her nervous so I think these sort of methods shouldn't be overdone.Thanks for help, Jane

Exactly! Thats why I said give her a smack!

I give my visitors the water spray for any of mine that are still not grown up enough to respect 'soft' visitors! I tell them to squirt it in the dogs face it works very well.

We had a very sociable Airedale, who as a puppy used to like to "bite" and jump up on everyone. We issued everyone a bottle of "Green Apple" as they enetered the house and carried a bottle in our own pocket. As soon as the puppy jumped up or started biting hands, they showed him the bottle while saying "no" or "off". We had tried several other approaches but this one did the trick. He remains a sociable and affectionate character, but greets people with an adoring look from a sitting position until they acknowledge him. We had started using "Green Apple" to stop him from "counter surfing" (that was after the mouse traps and coins in a can failed to deter him) he grew to dislike it so much that even the words "green apple" would make him sit.

What is Green Apple?

Hi, we have a 2 year old Vizsla and very early on we wanted to stop the jumping up on people (particularly children) also like Molly he has really sharp claws, every time he jumped up on us we would take him by the loose skin at the back of his neck and gently lower his head toward the floor/ground, saying 'bad' (apparently their mother would do this to the puppies to chastise them within the pack). Whether this is right or wrong, it's certainly worked a treat for us (he never jumps up on anyone now) and we have a very dominant,self assured dog.
good luck!
p.s. We must be mad...we are picking up a new pup soon(same breed)

I will try that, I hope at 7 mths she is still young enough to respond. She is turning into a lovely dog apart from that, really loving with a great sense of humour!