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Most of the behavior which your puppy or adult dog shows can be easily explained. It is because he is a dog and that is what dogs do! What you need to do is channel these behaviors in a dog logical way until they are acceptable to you and life is easier for both you and your dog.

A DOG THAT JUMPS UP AT YOU CAN BE AN IRRITATION.

Especially when you have a nice clean pair of trousers on and he has come in from outside!

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When trying to deter or to de-train a dog from a behavior it is important to understand the reason why he is exhibiting the behavior in the first place.

All puppies will try to jump up at you or your visitors. They do this because they want to get close to our faces and particularly our mouths-a food soliciting behavior carried over from when dogs were in the wild.

It can also be dominance related.

The dog wants to place his paws on you. Initially when a puppy jumps up at you our reaction teaches him that we like him doing that.

So how does that happen?

One or more of several things happen which confirms in the dogs mind that he is pleasing us. With little puppies especially we tend to tolerate the jumping up as they are sweet and lovable. And we feel they need our assurance all the time. We are also quietly pleased that the puppy wants our attention. it is flattering for us. Once we get tired of the jumping up we start pushing him off and at the same time talking to him, telling him to get off. Either reaction is pleasant for the puppy-he is being touched, spoken to or both. Even if you push the puppy off abruptly, they like to play rough and so do not see being pushed off as a deterrent.even seeing it as a game.

To the dog his action has provoked a reaction in you that will prompt a repeat of the behavior.

To stop him jumping up you have to change the previous rewarding behavior to an unrewarding experience..IGNORE the dog completely. Do not touch or speak to him.Turn your back on him,folding your arms so that you are not accessible for the dog to touch.if he jumps at your back take a step away..Do not acknowledge him in any way the whole time he is jumping up at you.When he eventually has 4 feet on the floor go down to his level and give him a lot of fuss and a tidbit.

Eventually when you have taught him to sit on command you can reinforce the control by making him sit as well,but at this stage you simply want him to understand that 4 feet on the floor gets attention whereas two feet on the floor does not. If everyone who comes to the house follows the same procedure the puppy will quickly learn that the way to get attention is to remain on the floor.

One of the first behavior routines to be established with any new puppy and perhaps some adult dogs is where and when it is appropriate to relieve themselves.

We have to accept that there will be accidents indoors and never punish your puppy or your adult dog for these accidents. Going to the toilet is a normal bodily function and as far as the dog is concerned and especially the puppy, when they need to go,then they need to go and that is where they happen to be.

The fact that the delivery of excretment or urine on the carpet is obnoxious to us is a concept that dogs do not understand. Do not be tempted to rub the dogs nose in it as contrary to those tales of old ,this does not work. Throwing your puppy outside will not work either. The fact that puppies trained this way do eventually become house trained is more luck than anything else .They would have become house trained anyway.

What this does is build up mistrust between dog and the owner and confuses the dog to only make a human even more difficult to understand than they already are! The puppy will need to go to the toilet frequently and so it is up to you to ensure that when the need arises the puppy is in the appropriate place to do the required action. As such take the puppy into the garden as soon as he wakens, as soon as he has eaten, when he awakens after a sleep ,after playtime and every hour apart from that!

The need to visit the garden will reduce as the number of mealtimes reduces. Remember that at 7 weeks old your puppy could be having up to 6 meals a day which will reduce to 2 by the time he is about 6 months old. Make sure you take him into the Garden. If you simply put him outside he may just sniff around and forget what he is out there to do .

This could result in him coming indoors and peeing on the carpet. If you are not outside to reward him when he goes then he will not learn that going outside to the toilet pleases you whereas when he performs the same action indoors it gets ignored.

If you learn how to use treats to reward him when he goes you can combine this with a simple sound or word so that he will learn to go on a certain command. To begin with you will find that you have to stay outside for a while with the puppy before he performs the required action. he just does not know yet what you want him to do. Do not be tempted into a game or he will never do what you are looking for.

Without losing sign of him try and ignore him removing any toys he may bring to you to play with. Do not get cross or impatient. It may be cold raining or thundering but he still needs to go to the toilet!

THE MORE I SEE OF MEN THE MORE I ADMIRE DOGS Madame De Sevigne

The are shelves and shelves of books dedicated to the nature and success of our relationship with dogs. Endless films and stories of just that testify to the nature of that bond and many of us have our own stories lodged firmly in our memories.While it has long been known of the special physical and mental health benefits of owning a dog like reduced blood pressure and increased self esteem we do not like to admit to the negative sides of owning a dog.

We are very protective of our dogs even if he is driving everyone in the neighborhood crazy with his barking. In society today we need to care for something ,we need a dog to activate us into taking exercise and to keep us in contact with nature.The dog may be the perfect receiver for the release of our caring emotions. But have we become over sold on the “dogs are good for you” theory. I do believe that sometimes there is another side to the coin and we need to look at it.

Dogs can cause a rapid and dangerous rise in blood pressure….like when you walk into your garden and those prize petunias are dug up and wilting. You come home to that darling Labrador puppy and half of that lovely rug in the living room is chewed to bits.

The toilet roll add with the small puppies comes to mind so cute except not that cute when it’s your toilet roll all over your house wrapped around the furniture. Then the overprotective dog that bites strangers who come to the house. I mean lets tell it like it is. My Jack Russel is my pride and joy but we no longer have our Window Cleaner. in fact the word must have got around because we seem to have problems finding one.

My Jack Russel is my pride and joy but we no longer have our Window Cleaner. Jack Russels are very territorial and protective and the poor unsuspecting man put his hand through a hole in the gate to get the bolt open. Quick as a flash he had his teeth sunk in. No amount of apologies and explanations of how the dog may have felt he was an intruder could overcome my embarrassment as the poor man wrapped his hand in a handkerchief assuring me he would do the windows on another day and scuttled off into his Van and out of sight.We haven’t seen him since!Word must have also got around as we are finding it difficult to secure a new window cleaner.

On many occasions dogs require utmost tolerance and patience when they are puppies and often when they are adults as well. For the dog that growls at strangers or soils indoors we can turn to training, re homing or turn to the vet to end it all. you really have to be prepared and tolerant to get through those early days.

Many of us today with all the training materials available to us are far too involved in that protective friendly relationship for such callousness but I have memories of it happening on a frequent basis in my fathers practice in the 60s.Dogs from the farm would be brought to the clinic to be put down because they had become problematic. My father not having the heart for it used to tell them to leave it with him and we would end up keeping them. At one time we had 17 dogs.

Most owners of dogs with behavior problems will put up with it than be faced with the ultimate solution. Then again what constitutes a behavior problem is highly variable. For some a single mistake on the carpet is sufficient to cause rejection while others put up with far worse without raising a hair. We all like our dogs to do what we say but it takes some work and perseverance to get there.A behavior problem is only acknowledged when the pains of owning a dog exceed the joy It brings.

Tackling problems takes time, time to look at all the factors that may be influencing the dogs behavior, the structure of its home environment and its relationship with the family and people outside the house. We need time to look at the dogs development and early upbringing in the true psychologists style of going back to childhood.So many problems have their roots in the dogs puppy hood and when we bring that lovely dog home from the kennels who knows what has gone before.No two dogs are alike, no two owners are alike and no two problems. So a broad approach is needed to identify the likely causes of the problem and decided on the treatment for each owner.

Tackling problems takes time, time to look at all the factors that may be influencing the dogs behavior, the structure of its home environment and its relationship with the family and people outside the house. We need time to look at the dogs development and early upbringing in the true psychologists style of going back to childhood.So many problems have their roots in the dogs puppy hood.Remember when you bring a dog home from the kennels who knows what has gone before and what the dog has learnt

Often the dogs behavior may need a little fine tuning for the dog and its owner to appreciate each other to the full once again.