Hints for Keeping your puppy down???

  • nick
    Lakeville, MN
    Posts: 4977
    February 16, 2008 at 5:37 am #655737

    Nice I gotta get me a wheeler (of my own) one of these days, I’ll probably go with the same choice

    riveratt
    Central Wisconsin US-of-A
    Posts: 1464
    February 16, 2008 at 5:52 am #655739

    Excellent choice! What kind of plow did you get? I’m either going to get a new Glacier II or a new Moose plow. Both offer excellent lift clearance and hook and unhook easily.

    Kirt
    Lakeville
    Posts: 116
    February 17, 2008 at 6:53 pm #655998

    have one just like it–will love it

    dave-barber
    St Francis, MN
    Posts: 2100
    February 18, 2008 at 2:55 am #656119

    Plow is an Eagle plow. Pretty nice. Already did my driveway (long country driveway), and another one. Works great.

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 23081
    February 18, 2008 at 3:14 am #656126

    You’ll love that set-up Don’t do what I did on thursday night…. I put the plow on, and made 2 passes, on the 3rd pass, I hit something…hard… I turn around to look what it was and the plow is laying behind the 4 wheeler… pulled the winch cable, right off the hook, cut the right front tire and mangled the plow hook up I got the tire replaced today, the hook back on the cable, but have a little blacksmithing to do on the plow hook-up

    big g

    corey_waller
    hastings mn
    Posts: 1525
    November 5, 2009 at 12:04 am #66515

    knee to the chest when he jumps up on you. not to hard but make sure he knows you mean it.

    mark winkels
    Posts: 350
    November 5, 2009 at 12:05 am #66516

    I assume keep the pup from jumping up on you. I have smaller boys. I don’t remember where I got it from but would correct the pup when it did jump, but would kneel down when praising or petting. I rarely pet her head. She does not jump up on the boys but stills plows them over every now and then when they are running around outside

    silverstreak
    West Union, IA
    Posts: 250
    November 5, 2009 at 12:22 am #66521

    when they jump on you step on their rear feet

    red_lab
    Winsted,MN
    Posts: 121
    November 5, 2009 at 3:26 am #66582

    Quote:

    when they jump on you step on their rear feet

    x2

    jetdriver
    Hudson WI
    Posts: 491
    November 5, 2009 at 3:54 am #66593

    The vet recently told us knee to chest is best.

    martysddw
    EC, Wisconsin
    Posts: 131
    November 5, 2009 at 5:26 am #66604

    My lab does not jump on anyone. When she was young she did. We grabbed her paws and squeezed them. HARD. It only took about 2 weeks to get her to stop.

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
    Posts: 3666
    November 5, 2009 at 2:03 pm #66629

    Quote:

    when they jump on you step on their rear feet

    It is way to easy to step down too hard and hurt the dog. I go with a knee to the chest.

    Don Hanson
    Posts: 2073
    November 5, 2009 at 2:03 pm #66630

    Something that I find interesting in our world of dogs. Most dogs crave attention and to a lesser degree affection. Dogs seem to learn very early what it takes to get our attention be it good or bad. Case in point, if a person walks into a room and a dog is laying quietly in a corner, more times than not the dog will be ignored. Now if the dog comes over and jumps up on the person, he gets yelled at but he’s getting attention.
    As far as the jumping up goes, you want to correct the problem quickly. With a puppy however, we do not want to use excessive force. One way to handle it is to lightly push the puppy away or off and then turn your back and ignore it for a few moments. You can then have the puppy sit and reward it. For a puppy we are not looking for a long attention span so as soon as the pups butt hit the floor you can reward it. Soon the pup will understand that by responding to your command (the sit) a reward will follow. The pup will also learn that the first part of the process is not needed or wanted by you (the jumping up).
    When interacting with the pup, get down on his level as much as possible. When he comes to you or you are playing a little game of fetch, get down on the floor or ground.
    If you are just getting started with this pup I have a great tip that will start the training off right. Especially if this is going to be a bird dog. shoot me a pm if interested.

    garvi
    LACROSSE WI
    Posts: 1137
    November 12, 2009 at 7:18 pm #67788

    One thing that has worked for me on a couple of different breeds, and that is arm straight out with palm towards the nose or eyes (not hitting )saying NO!! I think it works because your dog has to look at the hand and cannot see where to jump to??

    bradl
    Mason City, IA
    Posts: 53
    November 14, 2009 at 12:32 am #68157

    I agree with the knee to the chest. I always gave a stern OFF at the same time. Worked well for me.

    phillips3475
    Posts: 73
    November 20, 2009 at 10:31 pm #69576

    Quote:

    knee to the chest when he jumps up on you. not to hard but make sure he knows you mean it.



    And always use “NO”! Just that one little word once they know what it means can be used in so many different corrections. My dogs don’t even need to know I’m there and once they hear the word NO they will stop what ever it is that they were doing. Also when teaching “NO” we aren’t screaming it. Just a little above normal voice always. Nothing I hate worst then someones dog that won’t mind unless its being screamed at. If you teach by screaming then it will always be required.

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