Help, with my staffies excitable jumping up etc

wizard3891

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Staffies...ugly Brutes.

ignorance at its highest level

C_Mababejive

wizard3891 wrote: »

ignorance at its highest level

Yes...Lickle staffies can usually be found locked in a turd strewn back yard in most inner cities. Occasionally the bullet headed man of the house or his faux juicy pants clad temptress can be seen dragging it round the street on a lead but thats only in the early days. After that ,its locked in the yard or kept in the kitchen behind a kiddie gate. They like to !!!! in the house or sh&g your leg if you go anywhere near them...errr...the dog that is.

Fire_Fox

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Yes...Lickle staffies can usually be found locked in a turd strewn back yard in most inner cities. Occasionally the bullet headed man of the house or his faux juicy pants clad temptress can be seen dragging it round the street on a lead but thats only in the early days. After that ,its locked in the yard or kept in the kitchen behind a kiddie gate. They like to !!!! in the house or sh&g your leg if you go anywhere near them...errr...the dog that is.

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Raksha

sarabe wrote: »

Agree with Raksha. When a dog is sitting she's not jumping up.

Ignoring a dog is a wasted opportunity to teach them what you do want.

Clicker training will be great for this.

Make sure though that she has an outlet for all of that energy that she has by playing fetch or tug with her.

Re ignoring - it does have it's place - with a dog whose attention seeking for example (the same with children) but agree, teaching what you want them to do is far more effective. In fact, if a dog is attention seeking - why not teach it go get attention by lying down or 'settle' and then give it attention........

hethmar

OK, guys, looks like par for the course for devil dog stories

"The force also confirmed that it had referred a previous complaint about dog breeding at the house to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
The force has admitted a complaint was made by a city housing officer in February about dog breeding at the home.



But a police call centre operator told the caller it was "not a police matter" and the complaint was never followed up."

hethmar

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Yes...Lickle staffies can usually be found locked in a turd strewn back yard in most inner cities. Occasionally the bullet headed man of the house or his faux juicy pants clad temptress can be seen dragging it round the street on a lead but thats only in the early days. After that ,its locked in the yard or kept in the kitchen behind a kiddie gate. They like to !!!! in the house or sh&g your leg if you go anywhere near them...errr...the dog that is.

Im not sure what your point is? Yes, this sounds about the case for a lot of these poor dogs. Once again the dogs get the blame for the owners stupidity, greed and viciousness.

paddy's_mum

I'd go further than the last poster (waves to hethmar :-) ) and say that it seems to me that the one linking factor in all these tragedies is the total absence of common sense or responsible thinking in one or more of the adults involved in the home situation.

The usual outcry misses the point. We don't blame the car for killing the pedestrian, and ban all cars. We blame the driver. We don't outlaw therapeutic drugs for causing the death of the person taking them. We blame the circumstances which led to the overdose.

Pity the people who shout the loudest for yet more regulations concerning dog ownership don't address the cause, not the agent, of these sad, needless losses of life.

Indie_Kid

Raksha wrote: »

Re ignoring - it does have it's place - with a dog whose attention seeking for example (the same with children) but agree, teaching what you want them to do is far more effective. In fact, if a dog is attention seeking - why not teach it go get attention by lying down or 'settle' and then give it attention........

This is what my parents have started doing - if the dog is sat nicely and being calm, he'll get a cuddle. (and I'll get a kiss from him - lovely!) If he's jumping up, he'll get ignored.

Ste_C

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Staffies...ugly Brutes.

Spot on. Vile creatures.

Sublime_2

We got our current 'rescue' staffy when he was 3. He had come from a good home, but had been pushed (and shut) away when they had a baby (because they thought he was too boisterous, he's not).

Luckily mine was never a nipper, and he has always been sweet-natured. He was so eager to please when we first had him, and would get really excited when we had visitors, and jump up, because nobody had obviously curbed this behaviour, and I think being shut away had made him even more eager to please, so more jumpy.

The trouble is, its very off-putting to have an over-enthusiastic young staffy charging up to you, especially if you're nervous of dogs, (like some of my friends). I wouldn't like a strange dog doing that to me.

When he did this I used to push him back down, gently, but firmly, while saying the same. If he continued to be excitable, I would put him out of the room. Only when he was sitting quietly, could he come in. It took a while, but he learned.

Its really important to be firm with dogs from a young age. They are happier for it. I had two children after getting my dog, and I couldn't wish for a gentler family companion. I made a point of not excluding him when I had my two. Staffies are known as being the 'nanny' dogs. Mine used to let me know when my child was a baby, and woke up at night (when I didn't hear him).