How To Stop A Dog Jumping Up

Hi, my name is Stan Rawlinson. I'm a dog behaviorist and obedience trainer and today, I have Charlie with me and I'm going to show you how to stop a dog from jumping up. Now, you'll probably notice that Charlie has a set of bells on the lead, and the lead is quite long.

I'm going to get Charlie to sit. Good. Take it.

Now what is going to happen: I'm going to teach Charlie that I'm a controller of resources. I'm not an Alpha, I don't have anal glands, I don't have four legs and I can't smell wee at two miles. I'm not a dog.

Simple as that. This dog knows I'm not a dog. But what I am is a resource controller.

If I was training a killer whale, an orca, it would be black and white as well, but it would be four and a half tons and be very slippery and swim particularly fast. But if I was training a killer whale, do you imagine that for one minute that killer whale would think I was another killer whale? It wouldn't. It would think I was a resourcer.

I was the one with the fish. I was the one that took it from the small pool to the big pool and stimulated it. It would think I was a resourcer.

And that's exactly what I am. That's what I'm going to tell Charlie today, that I'm a resource controller, and as that resource controller, he cannot jump up on me. It will be physically impossible because he has to have a certain respect.

So what I'm going to do is start off with a jingler because it speeds the whole training up. I devised and developed this technique, and I've been using it for many years and a lot of trainers are starting to use it now. It's the same as a clicker, well it's the exact opposite of a clicker.

A clicker points out to a dog when it has done something right, a jingler points out to a dog when it's done something wrong. Good. Take it.

"Good" is the same as a clicker. It means "click". "Take it" is permission.

Remember we're resource controllers. Charlie, watch this. Good.

Take it. Good. Take it.

I'm going to offer it again to Charlie but I'm not going to say good. Take it. Good.

Take it. He turned his head away. Now the reason he turned his head away is that I've actually trained him that unless I give him permission to take the food, he can't have it.

Isn't that right, Charlie? Sit. Good. Take it.

If I then offer it without saying good, take it, he turns his head away. Good. Take it.

And how I did this: I offered the treat, and when he went for it I went, "off", literally like this. So I lifted my arms up, my body swiveled away from the dog like that. Off.

Off. Not loud, each time he went for the treat. And in the end, he would turn his head away.

As soon as he turned his head away, I would go, "Good. Take it." which is permission for him to have it.

Now once you've done that, just try to get your dog to jump up on you. It won't. And you have to remember that people and children flap their arms about sometimes, and that almost encourages dogs to jump up on them even if those people are frightened of dogs.

So it's important, even if people encourage it, that dogs don't jump up. So once again, I'm going to offer the treat. Good.

Take it. And I give him permission. Now that means that Charlie can no more jump up on me than he can fly a kite.

Good. Take it. And the reason he can't jump up is that he has to have a level of respect for me because I'm a resource controller.

This is such an important exercise to overcome everything else. If that's the first training thing you do, it should be there. It will stop the jumping, you'll have a level of respect, and the dog will start listening to you.

Sit. Good. Good boy.

Good. Take it. Excellent.

No Jumping. Marvelous. But of course, Charlie didn't jump up on me because I've trained him before anyway.

But that's how you do it. Train any dog to do the same thing. The bells just speed the whole thing up.

What they do is they allow you to do it so quickly and the dog t