A dog that jumps on people to greet them is displaying behavior that is ideal for golden retriever training. It is indeed a nuisance from time to time, but owners will also have to move early to remedy this because this might grow into a dominance issue problem. Below are some tips to help you with your “galloping dog” concern.
1. If you have heard about the golden retriever training strategy “Nothing in Life is Free”, you will remember that the dog cannot get what it wants if it does not pay first through good manners. In the same way, the dog needs to be ignored and brushed aside by anybody it jumps at. The dog needs to be taught to sit when greeting people walking through the door.
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 could possibly be the challenges in these? Getting everybody to participate in your “project” is very important. Otherwise, the folks at home are helping dismantle what you are trying to build in the dog. Don’t let your golden retriever training progress be set back so that you can help your pup behave better.