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Summary: Learn how to start your dog from the sit position to teach your dog not to jump on people in this free dog training video.
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Elise McMahon Elise McMahon has a Ph.D. in animal behavior, and has been working with both domestic and wild dogs since the early 1990s. She began studying domestic dogs in... read more
So if we don't want the dog jumping on us as a greeting which would be there normal greeting with each other we need to teach them a alternative appropriate, exceptable form of greeting us. Really we don't care what the dog is doing as long as they are not jumping. The dog can be standing or they can be sitting, sitting is a little bit further away from the actually jumping then standing. So it is a good idea when you are starting to work with either a young dog, a puppy or a dog who is just learned to jump and have been reinforce for jumping is a good idea to start with a sit. So we first want to make sure that the dog understands what sit is I lost my little demo dog here come here puppy good girl. This is Raven she is 13 months old and she is a jumper so first we want to make sure that Raven knows what sit means. Good girl. So if your dog knows how to put there selves into the sit position. Can you sign me 5? Thank you. Then we know that we can start in that position when she greeting people so we are going to do a couple of demonstrations of how to use the sit when you are greeting people.