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03-11-2014, 06:24 AM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Boston MA
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| Jumping on visitors Jess who is now "cujo' when it comes to people coming by or even walking by is now a big barker. The biggest problem is she is jumping on people. Not nipping or anything but jumping on them. I do not want her doing that. The other day my daughters friends brother who is 6'6" came by and she went beserk. She would not go near him but was barking like a crazy dog. I picked her up and she actually peed on me! The only time I ever saw her do that was when my Dad was here. ( he enjoyed the fact the dog feared him lol) Anyway how do I stop the dog barking and jumping? I usually have to put her in the mud room. I cant even hear people talking shes barking so much. She even barks and jumps on people she has seen dozens of times... Last edited by kimp5; 03-11-2014 at 06:25 AM. |
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03-16-2014, 02:50 PM | #2 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Pgh
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| Jumping I'm taking Pippin to Puppy Kindergarten and the trainer said to use the word "Off" and turn your back or move to the side. She said pushing the dog down or off only encourages them to jump back up again. We are working on that. Hope it gets better.
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03-16-2014, 03:24 PM | #3 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Her peeing was submissive urination. One time a female Yorkie I was keeping who hadn't yet met my big son walked into the room where he sat and just flipped over on her back and presented her belly in total submission! It was sooooo funny and thankfully she wasn't a submissive pee-er but she had never seen anything that big before I guess and she just gave up. He bent down and picked her up and they were best friends in a heartbeat. Best way to handle your impulsive dog is to obedience train her to respond to you and your commands by training her at home 5 mins. a day 2 or 3 times a day to do simple commands, always rewarding her with a luscious, high-value treat and praise when she gets the command right. Keep the training fun, upbeat and don't bark out the commands - just say the word in a happy or firm but never militant voice so she will not think training is a downer. By teaching her to sit, stay, lie down, stop in place, sit up and beg, watch me, leave it and other things, she will learn how to control her impulses and begin to learn that when you give her a command, it pays off to obey you. Before long, she will actually learn to do what you say 99% of the time just because she would never think of not obeying you. You two will bond and become a great working team and she will feel happy, confident and sense how pleased you are with her and will work hard to never make you unhappy. After 6 weeks of obedience training and she's more under control, you can set her up to succeed when people come in by training her what not to do when people come in. Get a friend to work with you for a while and have them come in the door as a visitor. First, load lots of luscious treats in your treat pouch on your belt and when someone comes in and she begins to jump up on them, tell her "leave it" and she will already know to immediately stop what she's doing and back off from your separate obedience training and she will hear you open the treat pouch and will immediately make the choice between the warm, boiled chicken or jumping on your helper's legs and the negative result of that. If she chooses wrong, you will both turn around and face away from and totally ignore her - every time she does it. You can say "uh oh" as she jumps up and you both turn your backs on her and she gets no treat. Both of you stand and totally ignore her for two full minutes. Then resume training. If she chooses correctly and backs off, she gets her treat and your great praise. In time, with repetition of these training sessions, she will learn to make the correct choice most of the time now and eventually, she will learn she's going to be told to "leave it" each time she jumps up and learn to control her impulse to jump. But pre-training her to "leave it" will teach her to back off whatever she's doing or drop anything she's got in her mouth for the greater reward to come. If you'd like, I can give you separate, step-by-step instructions for teaching "leave it". Simple obedience training can transform a misbehaving dog over time and totally reshape their behavior.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
03-20-2014, 07:30 AM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Boston MA
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| thanks Jilly and yes I would love more advice on leave it. She does know how to sit, stay roll over etc. but not the leave it one. |
03-23-2014, 02:21 PM | #5 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Sorry, it's very long but it's a step-by-step way to train your dog to learn impulse control and to learn how to leave and back away from anything. LEAVE IT: I taught Tibbe using the trade-out method. Gave him a toy to take in his mouth as I hid a treat behind my back. When he dropped the toy in his routine play, I said "Leave it", immediately gave him the treat. Repeated over & over for a few times each session for a couple of days. He soon was dropping his toy on his own, trying to get a treat. After a time as he was playing with a toy, I would say "Leave it" before he got the chance to drop it on his own and if he dropped & looked at me, I instantly treated him & praised him with a "Good boy" and would repeat the exercise again. Once I gave the command and he didn't drop it, I would say "uh oh" & turn away from him to start to let him know that "uh oh" meant no attention and no treat. After a minute - 60 seconds, would turn back around and start over with "Leave it" and keep going through the treating/praising if he did drop it & turn to me and "uh oh", no treat & turning away if he didn't. At this point in the training, after he'd started learning to drop the toy as a result of the verbal command to "Leave it", if he dropped it on his own to get a treat, he got none. I only treated when I had said "Leave it", as this starts teaching him at this stage in the training that responding to the command is what gets him the treat now. Later, I would put toy on the floor & tell him to "Leave it", treating him if he avoided taking it in his mouth. Once he got very good at leaving it - dropping the toy on command, I would hold two treats, one in each hand, offering him one and holding one out in front of me so he could see it. Once he took the first treat, I would say "Leave it". He didn't know any better at first & his first reflex was eat treats, at which time I would say "uh oh", retract the hand with the second treat & turn away. Eventually once he dropped the first treat, he got the other offered treat immediately and big, big praises. Dropping food out of its mouth on command is a big step forward in the "Leave it" training. That is VERY BIG. Immediately I got two more treats, offered him one, held the other out in the other hand so he could see it and said "Leave it". He ate the first treat immediately! That's how it goes. So, I said "Uh on", turned away, retracting the hand with the other treat, waited 60 seconds then turned back & got another treat, started over with "Leave it". Eventually, he got it - a game - when playing "Leave it", you drop whatever you are given - whatever it is - even food - and you will immediately get a second treat. And big big big praises & happiness by mommy! Then I would place the treat on the floor and tell him to "Leave it", praising if he did. After a while, I even tried him on chicken pieces. He learned to drop a piece of chicken when I said "Leave it", because he knew he would get the second piece in my hand instantly! I could place the meat on the floor in front of him and he would back off if I said "Leave it". He did it to get the piece he knew was waiting - that piece of chicken & the praise. You can literally train a dog to do anything, even delay instant food gratification if you are patient, keep the sessions very short & let them know that if there are no results, no treat/praise is forthcoming but, oh, boy, if they do leave it, the reward is immediate & good! The last piece you have to know is when you use the "Leave it" command in a non-training way as when the dog picks up a sock or a dropped pill, always go get them a good treat & praise, praise, praise when they do drop the object. ALWAYS get them their treat. I don't care if you are ill - get the dog his treat & praise him lovingly. It will keep the lesson in his head that dropping the object or food in his mouth is the thing to do as he's going to get his reward/praise and a happy, happy mommie. There are many ways to do this lesson so as others give their methods, pick what best works for you and your dog. Make a game of it, keep it short, stay patient & repeat the game frequently - even when he is old. Hope he learns it well. It can save his life.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
03-24-2014, 05:54 AM | #6 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NY
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| I totally agree. Dogs don't just automatically learn to act like Lassie. It takes time and consistant training to teach a dog how to behave. Some basic obedience training, sit, stay, down, come, and of course "NO" will go a long way to having a better behaved dog in your home. Any bad behavior can be corrected by proper training. As yorkietalkjilly said make sure you make training time a fun time. Use treats. Your dog should look forward to it. |
03-24-2014, 07:50 AM | #7 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | Jilly always writes so clearly about how to train. Just a suggestion, in the early days of dog training, ie when you have a puppy, or even if you are training an older dog, if at all possible walk around with treats in your coat pocket, housecoat pocket, fleecie pocket. LOL, I think you get the idea here. You can usually use cheerios for your coat pocket, just remember to change them out every few days or so. This allows you to immediately reward behaviour as good behaviour happens even if it is outside of your formal obedience training. And sometimes it is a good way of rewarding a position for a "trick" you have not yet taught yet; like bowing.
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