How can I stop my dog jumping up at people?

Many thanks to Alex for this question. Refusing to walk on the lead can be as frustrating as a dog that pulls on the lead, but how do we resolve the problem of our dog not wanting to go for a walk? For more personal and specific help and advice our Mobile Master Trainer will be happy to visit you at home, but here are some suggestions that may help.

Many thanks to Amy for this question. Introducing new puppies to old dogs can be a problem at times. If you were an elderly, retired person, how happy would you be if someone asked you to live with a young child that always wanted to be playing and jumping around? Let's see what we can do to help the old dog ….

Do you have a "gofor dog"? A dog that goes for this, and goes for that? This type of behaviour can make a dog walk really miserable, not to mention living with them. But what can be done to eliminate the problem, and/or prevent it happening in the first place?

Why does my dog bite me when I grab him by the collar or pull him away from something he shouldn’t have?

Why does my dog pull on the lead? Why have I put up with it for so long? Is there a "quick fix"? Perhaps I should have gone to training classes ages ago!

So just what is a ruined dog, and how would you know if you had one? A dog can be ruined for a number of reasons - lack of socialising during the first 12 weeks of life; lack of training in the first 6 months of life; and lack of guidelines and boundaries are just a few of the ways in which humans ruin canines.

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