The Problem: Louie jumps up on the table and the countertops, and even after telling him off (a word that he knows and understands), he still continues to jump up.
Breaking Point, literally: I'm at my breaking point with this habit as he jumped up on the counter this morning and knocked off one of my nice Pyrex dishes. Fortunately, neither he nor I was hurt with the breaking glass, but now I've hit a breaking point, literally.
Solution: To be determined! This is where I need all of your help please! For those of you that have bigger dogs that have or used to jump up on the counter tops and table, how did you fix the problem? Any and all advice will be much appreciated.
9 comments:
Is it more for food/to scavenge or just because? If you think he is trying to get something, I would make sure you are only feeding him out of his bowl so he knows that's the only place for food or try putting something bad smelling on the table or counter so he will want to get away (in addition to the verbal warnings). Good luck :(
Good luck--I'm sorry I don't have any advice for you! I would google if I were you!
I agree with Meg that if it's a food motivated issue that only feeding him from his bowl should help. Also, not leaving food unattended on counters or tables.
If it's more a rambunctious-running-around-sort-of-thing... for us, we discovered a couple of years ago that our dog hates being sprayed with water. I know that's so random, but we have a spray bottle that we fill with water and we used to give him a squirt when he misbehaved. Truthfully, we seldom spray him anymore. We just pick up the bottle and he behaves. It broke his habit of jumping on furniture and jumping on people.
Anyway, I know it has worked for a couple of our friends' dogs as well. I hope you don't think it's cruel. It doesn't actually hurt him, he just hates being sprayed for some reason, haha! And again, we don't even have to do it anymore. He doesn't jump on furniture at all and when people come to the door, we just hold the bottle and make sure he sees we have it and he behaves.
THe water thing will work...we employed this at our house as well on the advice of the trainer in our puppy classes. You can also put a little lemon in the spray bottle - it doesn't hurt the dogs, but they don't like it. Now all we have to do is pick up the bottle and the dogs immediately stop.
Also, another tip we learned during our puppy classes was instead of saying "No!" when they are doing something wrong, you make a noise, kind of like "ah ah" or a "eh eh" (like if you were making a buzzer noise) and the dogs learn that it means to stop whatever they are doing. To this day, my dog knows that that noise means "no" or "stop" without having to say it. For some reason they respond much better to it.
Good luck!!
Have you taken him to obedience training? I can't remember if I read that or now...we did for our JRT Molly b/c as you know they have high energy. She's a great dog....and listens great besides the fact she always needs to go out when I'm already sitting down!
I've used the squirt bottle before and it worked really well. I don't do it with my dogs now, but my last dog had a very bad jumping problem. Give the squirt bottle a try.
I say the squirt bottle (but only because it worked on a friend's cat!) other than that I have no solutions, just sympathy!
Good Luck!
Ernie was having some dominance issues a few weeks/months ago and we started some awesome training with him. Take a look at Cesar Milan articles/videos... he is AWESOME! He shows you how to be the leader of the pack and Ernie is doing SO good lately! One major thing we change was Ernie is no longer allowed in the kitchen.. funny how one change can affect so much other behavior
We were told not to use "no", so we say "Leave it" and that helps us. Weiser doesn't get on the counters, but I have heard that Weimaraners are "counter surfers". Perhaps there is information on how they stop Weimaraners from doing it...Good luck!
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