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Jumping from behind
I’m training a four month old female Large poodle. Today was my first day with her.Basic obedience training with a clicker. Her owner was telling me that she jumps on her from behind and if I could help with that behavior. Any suggestions I would love it. I’ve never Trained a dog that did that
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Such a beautiful dog! I love that you are click training, I think some dogs almost prefer it because of the consistency. When does the jumping from behind occur? Can they give you some examples? What does the person do when it happens?
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Opps! I didn’t give much detail lol. When you walk past the dog, she starts jumping on the back of you, jumping up towards your hips. Touching you, it’s not safe to have her walk behind you. Shes 4 month old, first interview & training. Shes crate trained.
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Hey @Denise , it would be helpful, as @pawsup asked, to know when the dog does this behavior.
Just some general advice in the meantime: one could break down the presentation of one’s back into small steps and c/t the dog when she does NOT jump up. IOW, at first just turn away from dog slightly, then c/t if 4 paws remain on floor. Repeat until that’s a piece of cake. Then gradually add slightly more of a body turn until the back is fully presented. Once dog is keeping 4 paws on the floor in that context, movement (walking away) can be added, step by step, with c/t for the absence of jumping.
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What a great idea @virginiad I love that!
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Thanks for the advice and I put it more detailed message under the first reply.
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Aw sweet pup! I like to think about WHY a pup might do this… and it could be that she’s desperate for attention but also learned jumping from the front is “no bueno”. Is she getting all the enrichment she needs?
My idea for a “fix” would be to engage the pup by teaching her to hand target. If she’s walking nicely at their side, she won’t be jumping. I’d also teach her to go out in front of me a bit, after a toy or treat, on cue (“GO”)For that you could practice on stairs or a narrow hallway. Sometimes having the dog in front is safest.
Be creative, have fun!!
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Love the suggestion!!! I’ll let you know how things work out.
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I’m going to follow this advice too. I adopted a 14mo Mini Aussie. We’re working on demand barking, jumping up, furniture surfing, chasing lawn mowers, etc. We’re doing relatively well with everything but jumping from behind. Sometimes I don’t even know she’s there.
I’m using sit on approach from the front and it never occurred to me to set up the same scenario from behind. Now that you said it it sounds obvious.
This dog is helping me be more compassionate for some of my students. It’s Hard work to train a dog with established habits I don’t appreciate. Constant training. I more fully understand “use a crate to give yourself a break”. On the other hand she’s a love and sooooo much fun to train.
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You can almost see her vibrating from behind! She looks like she’s WIRED, @Cyn – I bet she’d be great at (pick a dogsport here) all the things.
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Update…..I love my client & Fancy 4 month old large poodle My client has been working with Fancy with very good results. I’m using the idea to help prevent the puppy, Jumping from behind clients & guest. Anyway, Fancy, the puppy is a lot easier to train than the owner………..We had fun and returning Saturday. I using the two suggestions from Diggin Dogs. Avoiding letting the puppy walk behind us. Then working on Sit-Stay, stand a little sideways til we train her enough we can turn our backs without her Jumping on us. I’m sure this will workout great. ????
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