Toilet Training / Jumping up

Hi Everyone,

Could use some advice on a few issues we are experiencing with our 4 year old male staff.

1. How can we get him to stop jumping up ourselves and visitors when walking into the house? He does this on initial greeting and then within about 10 minutes of doing what we have come to call his 'tribal dance' he calms down and as good as ignores everyone. It can become quite uncomfortable for some visitors which we have.

2. We allowed him to have the free run of the downstairs of the house and up until recently he was good in the toilet area, told us when he needed to go outside to the toilet and was clean through the night and during the day when we are both at work for 8/9 hours. Now he is good during the day, with the odd exception, but through the night there nearly always seems to be a mess on the living room floor. He only has the living room of a nighttime as we have a kitten who has the kitchen area.

Any help or advice would be really appreciated as the toilet issue is starting to become a big issue within the household.

Thank you in advance to you all

Jumping up: Back to basics. Stick pup on a lead and a correction collar, not half choke, cause they don't listen. Check chains will do and just yank him off if you miss the point where he starts to jump. If you can correct when he's just about to jump do so with a stern "NA-AH!" or something along those lines.

Toilet: Crate him. Simple. He'll learn on his own time not to mess his bed.
If he does, he sleeps on the hard floor until his bed gets back from the wash. Don't rush it. Dogs are naturally clean in small spaces and don't like their own waste near them. He'll learn. Again, try and catch him when he's either doing it or about to do it.
If you can catch him when he's about to do it. A swift "Na-ah!" and put him outside then praise like mad when he does go outside.

Kays then. That's a possibility. I've never seen a problem with them.
In that case a study padded nylon collar and treats when he comes back to you could work.

Skullkandi wrote:Jumping up: Back to basics. Stick pup on a lead and a correction collar, not half choke, cause they don't listen. Check chains will do and just yank him off if you miss the point where he starts to jump. If you can correct when he's just about to jump do so with a stern "NA-AH!" or something along those lines.

Toilet: Crate him. Simple. He'll learn on his own time not to mess his bed.
If he does, he sleeps on the hard floor until his bed gets back from the wash. Don't rush it. Dogs are naturally clean in small spaces and don't like their own waste near them. He'll learn. Again, try and catch him when he's either doing it or about to do it.
If you can catch him when he's about to do it. A swift "Na-ah!" and put him outside then praise like mad when he does go outside.

I haven't replied to any of your posts so far because I think i might say something I will regret. But its obvious your training methods and theories are old-school and ancient! You won't get anywhere with these methods no wonder your dog can't take it's eyes off you it lives in fear 24/7! Choke chains are so outdated you do not need to force your dog to do what you want. The toilet training bit, not so bad but I wouldn't take my dog's bed away and make it sleep on a hard floor. If the dog has recently started defecating in the house at 4years old this is due to a behavioural issue not just because he is trying to be difficult. Like Caryll said did this begin to happen wehn you first got the kitten?