How do I get my bulldog to stop her bad habits?
I have an 18 month old English/American mixed bulldog. For the most part, when it is just her and I, she is very well behaved and docile…except when people come over. She becomes aggressive and jumps up at them repeatedly and mouths them. She’s not mean at all, in fact she loves people, but she’s strong and gets very excited and I’m afraid she may end up hurting someone. If she does this when someone comes over, I’m forced to put her in her crate only after pulling her back and trying to verbally correct the behavior doesn’t work.
How can I break her of this without having to lock her up? I don’t like to keep her away from people, even though her crate is in the living room, I’d still prefer her to be with everyone else. She’s still very much like a puppy, but the older she gets the more I feel I will never be able to break her of this. Does anyone have any suggestions? Corrective collars are not an option, so please do not suggest them. She wears a choke chain but only outside and because it’s the only thing she hasn’t been able to break yet.
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When she jumps on you, knee her down with your knee. My dog used to have a really bad habit of doing that. So everyone that came, i would tell them to knee her if she jumps on you and after a while she got sick of it and just stopped. And if she bits and gets all mouthy, muzzle her with your hang for a couple seconds reasonably hard and tell her no. Dogs are fast learners so if you consistently keep on top of her bad habits then she will learn right from wrong really fast!
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You need to work on your dogs basic obedience and make sure she is 100% on that, that way when you have people over you can tell her to "sit" and"wait" until YOU tell her its okay to get attention from people. When people come into your home, instruct them to NOT give her any attention in any way until she has calmed down and work on giving her the "sit" and "wait" commands.