Little Trevor is 13 weeks and is now tall enough to hop on the couch, stand with paws on the kitchen counters, dining room table and so on. Besides saying 'off' and (sometimes) removing him when he won't get down, telling him 'off' and 'good off' when he does get down, does anyone have any other tips?
When he did that, we told him off and as soon as his 4 paws on floor, gave him crazy good boy scratching. If he didnt listen "off", we totally ignored him. No touch, no eye contact, nothing he would get. Of course he almost licked us dead because he wanted to get our attentions so bad but we kept ignoring him till his all paw were on the floor. As soon as he gave up, we praised him. When he just walked pass our chair or sofa (even if not showing any interesting of jumping), we praised him everytime. We corrected him by holding his front paws with our hand (not so hard but just little pressure that he could feel on his paws) & moving his paws from furniture & gently dropped them on the floor with saying off. When we corrected him with pulling his collar gently, it just made him more reactive. But holding paws worked better for us.
I found when he doesn't listen off, giving him command like "sit" or "down" worked great too since he couldn't jump with that positions. I used to hold treats & call him where I am sitting & tell him sit then gave him a treat. Now he understands next to furnitures are place to sit where good things happen.
My dog trainner said "never or always". If you let him do once, he will keep trying. Jumping on furniture, we are "never" side because we have a 9 years old cat & he usually stays on the furniture. So we don't want Jon jump & annoy our cat. It is our cat's feel safe zone. So we never let him & he knows how much he tries, it won't happen.
Hope it helps. It can be very tricky and will take time. But they are all smart and sweet so will get there before you know.
Thank you so much for all of these good ideas! We have a terrible time in the evenings. He basically goes bananas and jumps up on the arm of my recliner, starts biting and scratching at it. We tell him off and remove him and goes even more crazy until he ends up in time out in a wire play pen in the living room. I hate doing it because I feel like we are teaching him, calm in the play pen, go bananas when not but it is bad when he goes wild like that! We'll keep at it because I know it won't last forever. I like the sit next to furniture idea, get a treat.
Monte is staring to jump on the counters and kitchen table too. I say off and a good boy, we allow him on the couch. My boyfriend and I went around on that but I won saying he's a member of this family he should be allowed to sit on the couch. I really just wanted to be able to cuddle him easier lol.. Good luck!
This. Dory is allowed on our couch. She loves it up there! But the counters- is a "no, ma'am and a nudge and a quick good girl" helps that our older golden howls anytime she does it! Dory looks at her like, "snitches get stitches!" Lol
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