Many people should have encountered the behavior of the dog pouncing on people, some people will like it, some people will not like it, so why do dogs like to pounce on people so much?
Let’s find out why dogs pounce on people:
1、Welcome and greetings to the host
Showing welcome and greeting to the owner pouncing is one of the more common maneuvers dogs use because we humans are taller than dogs and dogs will want to be close to us, which is why they jump up and pounce.
2. Ways of establishing hierarchical status
The behavior of dog ‘pouncing’ is a way of establishing hierarchical status between dogs. When dogs pounce on each other they are actually showing each other how strong they are, in fact they are showing their muscles to each other. If they can use this to show each other that they are better than the other, they are never going to settle it by fighting.
3. Wants you to play with it
Maybe you usually work or study too busy, or indulge in their own world ignored the dog, it is a young soul can not be soothed, so will pounce on you, want to attract your attention, want to let you play with it. If you are really too busy you can also touch the dog dog head, reward it a piece of chicken jerky, let it know, you did not ignore it, you are just busy, busy will play with it.
4. The nature of dogs
Dogs from childhood will play the game of pouncing around, so the dog likes to “pounce” is the nature of the dog, so from childhood to see the dog pounced on you, you have to help the dog corrected, or grow up, it will be very difficult to correct.
5. Asking you for food
In fact, the dog likes to pounce on people is also a kind of pleasing the owner in order to ask for food a kind of behavior, this time, many people encountered this situation will be in order to appease the dog and big petting it. But in fact, such behavior to a certain extent gives the dog a kind of suggestion, let the dog feel that their behavior is encouraged, and therefore let it pounce on people to strengthen the behavior!
How to teach a dog to jump on people
1. Using a leash, control the action by pulling hard on the leash when the dog lunges at someone, and then have it sit. Sit still for three minutes before letting the dog up.
2, when the dog jumped at you, said loudly “no”, at the same time back to avoid the dog, try a few more times the dog will know you do not like this behavior.
3, you can also use the command to train the dog. In the dog is about to pounce on people, immediately and harshly use the command to let it sit, generally smarter dogs will never pounce again. But the premise is that the dog has to learn the command, repeated training can deepen the dog’s impression.
