Greeting

[Pilki]

Just woundered if somebody could suggest the next step I take to stop Ollie jumping up when people come to the house.  Hes brilliant when they knock on the door he stays behind the settee and has a nose to see who it is. As soon as they are through the door he's there for attention, I do hold his collar and ask him to sit before I allow people to say hello to him, or ask them to turn away from him when he jumps and wait for him to sit  but it doesnt seem to be getting any easier.

[Mrs Pepperpot]

No suggestions - sorry, but interested in any replies as Pepper jumps up at people who come to the house too.  The trouble is, most people come to see Pepper as much as the rest of the family and say 'oh I don't mind, she's fine'.     Mmm.....wait til she's covered in mud 

[KellyT]

I love watching the dog whisperer 
He says that you should just totally totally ignore a dog upon entering the house (or your guests should) no matter how much noise they make, or how jumpy / close they get.  You shouldn't even tell them to be quiet / behave / get down / get off.

Once they have settled down, then you can call them over for attention.

We have been trying this with our 2 - it starts off noisy but after 5 mins or so they seem to give up and go and lie down. 

They still do it every time, but what was happening was people enter, dogs get excited, people fuss dogs, dogs get more excited.. by ignoring them they get calmer quicker and then don't get as excited once they've been spoken to .. if that makes sense.  I'm hoping at some point they will twig that if they just stayed calm & quiet they'd get the fuss straightaway!

[Karma]

http://www.scallywagsdogs.com/Images%202010/Jumping%20up.pdf

Although the document says "pup", it can be used with any age dog.
Teaching the behaviour you do want tends to extinguish the behaviour you don't want much more quickly than simply ignoring it - though I agree with Kelly that any jumping up needs to receive absolutely no reinforcement at all, and that telling them to stop it etc can be reinforcing.

[Mrs Pepperpot]

Absolutely!  Just have to train the humans now...........

[Top Barks]

Also manage the problem by introducing your dog on lead so Ollie doesn't get chance for people to reward the behaviour in the first place, and then as Karma suggests, train an alternative behaviour and be really consistent about it.