It takes good handling, by which I mean a good understanding of the dogs body language when it is going to do the unwanted actions.
Essentially you "divert"
That is, say visitor comes to door, open door, dog indicates it is going to do the behaviour, you click and divert the attention to the handler. This soon imprints to the dog and the divert behaviour becomes ingrained. Good trick is to train the dog to go for a toy to give or show to visitor/person you meet.
You need of course to train the dog to the clicker first. A clicker is not needed, you can have a voice command, like "Pip" "beep" tick"
Pups bite or mouth, it's what they do, your timing needs to be spot on, too slow and you can actually train the unwanted behaviour in!!!! The same thing will be needed to stop and enthusiastic pup jumping up at people
Last edited by: Zero on Sun 19 May 24 at 20:44
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