How Golden Retriever Training Can Help Minimize People Jumping
A seemingly happy dog that jumps on people it meets is not a hundred-percent okay; in fact, its actions suggest the need for some golden retriever training. Dog owners will have to intervene fast; otherwise, this issue may just mature into a dominant dog headache. Ready to tackle your galloping-dog dilemma? Check out the tips below.
1. The first golden retriever training tip is very much related to what is known as Nothing in Life is Free. The visitor goes into the house without speaking or looking, until they are sure the dog is settled enough to greet the visitor. Besides, in training classes, the dogs need to be in a “sit” position before being allowed to pet anyone.
The second main tip is that the dog most not be noticed or paid attention to, until it is behaving well and its four feet are on the floor, or it is sitting. People also ought not to act emotional, because the dog also gets wind of the emotion and ends up not keeping still.
The people need to be encouraged to ignore the dog until it is completely calm. Rushing and jumping at people need to be stopped with a sound “No,” and asking people to cross their arms and turning their backs to the dog. The ignoring part needs to continue until the dog learns to keep still, and by then it will have realized that it is up to the people whether they want to greet it or not. It will also see that no amount of jumping can now seem to make them greet it. When the dog is not anymore jumping, have the visitor face the dog and offer it a quick pat. The moment the dog jumps, bring up the ignoring campaign again.
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.
