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Posted by Kris
on 10/16/2009, 4:11 pm, in reply to "Body Awareness"
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With our English Bull Terrier, Kaiser, we'd get mad and yell at him (or, in some cases, shove him across the couch.) This didn't really help as he thought you were instigating a game. For the little that he did recognize we were angry with him, he'd "apologize." Simply put the apologies were worse then the original stepping/jumping on us.
Either way he was coming back to us and more active and physical than before.
We found that simply ignoring him worked best. Say "OUCH!" loudly so he knew he stepped on us, and then simply move him out of the way and NO attention at all other than removing him again if he crowded nearer.
Eventually (and it took a while!) he learned to be (a bit) more careful about where he stepped. I can't offer much more as we haven't had much of this problem with our other dogs.
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