Golden Retriever Training As a Solution to Jumping at People

A dog that jumps on people to greet them is displaying behavior that is ideal for golden retriever training. It is indeed a nuisance from time to time, but owners will also have to move early to remedy this because this might grow into a dominance issue problem. Below are some tips to help you with your “galloping dog” concern.

1. If you have heard about the golden retriever training strategy “Nothing in Life is Free”, you will remember that the dog cannot get what it wants if it does not pay first through good manners. In the same way, the dog needs to be ignored and brushed aside by anybody it jumps at. The dog needs to be taught to sit when greeting people walking through the door.

The second main tip is that the dog must not be noticed or paid attention to unless the dog is calm and its four feet are on the floor, or it is sitting. People ought to also watch out acting excited or agitated, greeting the dog in that characteristic high pitched voice, then the dog may not be able to keep still.

Get the people to ignore the dog until it is completely calm. If it rushes and jumps at people, tell the dog “No”, and ask them to cross their arms and turn their backs on the dog. Keep this up until the dog realizes that people, not the dog, decide when to greet the dog. If the dog does indeed stop jumping or sit or lie down, have the visitor calmly face the dog and offer it a quick pat. If the dog start jumping, repeat the process of ignoring.

3) If anybody has told you that the dog is bound to outgrow this bad manner by age three, be careful since all those months are just enough to nurture dominant dog tendencies in the dog.

A lot of dogs are easily agitated than the others. Still more need more time to finally absorb what is being taught to them. So be ready to be patient with this otherwise loving and brainy dog breed.

What else could a dog owner face in all this? Consistency is at stake, as always in golden retriever training, so get everybody to help out in your “anti-galloping dog” project. It is really possible to have at home a dog that is helped to be disciplined and behaved, but which is at the same time cheerful and optimistic.