How do you snap a dog out of excitement?
Eldon Conn
2025-05-18 10:22:17
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When your dog becomes overly excited and jumps on you, turn away and ask your dog to sit. Once they do it, praise them and reinforce what you want by rewarding them with something they love, like a treat or petting them. Ignore the behaviour you don’t want, in this case, your dog jumping on you, you are ensuring you are not reinforcing that behaviour. Turn away and redirect, ignore the behaviour, when your dog begins to jump up or become overexcited, turn away from them and ignore the behaviour. Ask your dog to sit and stay, for this to work, your dog should already be trained to understand the sit and stay cues. Toss treats, by tossing treats for your dog, you are giving them a chance to interrupt the behaviour, your dog gets busy getting treats and stops jumping. Tossing a treat interrupts behaviour and moves the dog away from the person, this gives them time to move away, tossing treats also keeps the dog’s head and feet down, so they learn good things are on the ground. Teach them alternate behaviour by redirecting their attention away from the stimulus and offering a reward your dog loves, this reinforces the new behaviour and helps you manage your dog’s excitement levels.
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