Training OFF with a clicker

Hi all! It's been a while since I've been here with news about Jellybean, she's doing well and just turned 1 year old this month. Made it through most of the naughty adolescence unscathed as well, although she is still testing now and then.

We have had a heck of a time teaching her not to jump up/OFF. I finally decided to go at it with treats and a clicker, and so far so good. Thing is, I sort of noticed it becoming a game, like she would jump up because she knew she would eventually get a treat, and I don't know that she was connecting why she got the treat other than if I jump I get a treat. So I started walking around and trying to get her to jump in different ways or on the furniture, and then saying off with a pointed finger as the hand signal. She then started connecting it, she barked at me a couple of times when the treats were gone and I tried getting her to play as reward instead, but used my OFF/finger combo and that stopped her as well so I think she gets that OFF means stop the "aggressive" moving towards someone or impolite behavior like barking and get on the floor and I'll be rewarded. She then laid down into her CALM mode and is no happily playing/chewing a toy.

Any tips or refinements so I'm not teaching her to jump as a game? Am I doing it right?

Hope you're all well and thanks!

Sounds just about right to me!

Great!!! Only took almost a year LOL

Sometimes it just takes a while to get from "Food" to "Ah, I see what you want!".

hahaha for sure! actually it's more like it took me almost a year to figure out how to outwit my dog and understand how to train this behavior - she's much too smart for me it only took a few minutes for her to figure out OFF (four on the floor like statue) meant food

Sounds good to me. I thought you meant jumping up on people at first, but since you mean furniture, it sounds like you're doing the right thing. Takes a bit of time for them to understand our human logic but they get there in the end