8month old puppy just wont stop getting excited!
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So we have two puppies. One of them is good as gold apart from yapping at everything but our border terrier/dachshund we are really struggling to get to behave. Most of the time she is okay but then there is moments when you have to brace yourself becuase her tail will start wagging and she will then start licking you and will not give up trying. It seems like uncontrollable excitment. In the morning aswell we can here her crying and eating the kitchen cupboards before we get up and she has always done a wee whilst the smaller pub is quite happy in bed.
Any suggestions? Could really with her restraining her excitment as she does jump very high and some people dont like it. She is getting better at not jumping up but that depends on just how excited she is.
Any suggestions? Could really with her restraining her excitment as she does jump very high and some people dont like it. She is getting better at not jumping up but that depends on just how excited she is.
Never you mind said:
Puppies do puppy stuff. 
They run around like everything is the best thing ever and nothing can top it apart from that thing over there which is just the best thing ever. Look! Look! Its the best thing ever over there.
Try changing its diet to raw or something.
Thought as much haha! She just sometimes seems like theres not a lot going on in the head of hers. She wiggles around uncontrollably and is sometimes bit strange! Suppose i should be happy I've got a dog with some character! They run around like everything is the best thing ever and nothing can top it apart from that thing over there which is just the best thing ever. Look! Look! Its the best thing ever over there. Try changing its diet to raw or something.
My dog does this - she's super excited by guests and other dogs, we always get comments along the line "awww what a cute pup, don't worry she'll soon grow out of it" and we get a slightly horrified look when we reply that she's 5 years old...
She is a lot better now, one thing I do is to not look, touch or talk to her when she is excited, as that is just rewarding the behaviour. When I get home I will wait till she has chilled down to greet her. I also get her to lay down too, this has resulted in a slightly calmer dog that will come and greet people by laying down infront of their feet wagging her tail furiously.
Another thing we did for jumping is to unbalance her, they don't like that at all, when she was jumping I would push out my knee and this would just deflect her enough to put her off balance. she doesn't jump very much at all now.
Consistency is important too, we had to get my parents and friends all working to the same method to have the maximum effect, otherwise she'd just learn not to jump up at one particular person
She is a lot better now, one thing I do is to not look, touch or talk to her when she is excited, as that is just rewarding the behaviour. When I get home I will wait till she has chilled down to greet her. I also get her to lay down too, this has resulted in a slightly calmer dog that will come and greet people by laying down infront of their feet wagging her tail furiously.
Another thing we did for jumping is to unbalance her, they don't like that at all, when she was jumping I would push out my knee and this would just deflect her enough to put her off balance. she doesn't jump very much at all now.
Consistency is important too, we had to get my parents and friends all working to the same method to have the maximum effect, otherwise she'd just learn not to jump up at one particular person
We have an almost 8 month old, who is pretty good on the lead, and will sit etc. But when there is another dog or someone new he turns into a complete loon.
All part of being a puppy, but when the puppy is ~25kg it can be difficult to keep him in check sometimes.
I will be taking him to some socialising walks held by the same trainer we use, where basically a group of "anti-social" dogs, whether that is aggressive of just plain daft (like ours) go out on a controlled walk together so they all get a chance to calm down and find out that walking with other dogs can be a pleasure for the humans as well as the dogs.
All part of being a puppy, but when the puppy is ~25kg it can be difficult to keep him in check sometimes.
I will be taking him to some socialising walks held by the same trainer we use, where basically a group of "anti-social" dogs, whether that is aggressive of just plain daft (like ours) go out on a controlled walk together so they all get a chance to calm down and find out that walking with other dogs can be a pleasure for the humans as well as the dogs.
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