Dogs see nothing wrong in jumping Nuggets Paul Millsap Jersey , especially when this behavior has been inadvertently tolerated by their owners from when they were puppies. Remember how you found it cute when the puppy would jump up and down to greet you? Without realizing it, we actually encouraged the jumping behavior and now that the dog is bigger, we don?t like it especially when we?re all dressed up with somewhere to go. It becomes an even bigger problem when your dogs jump on strangers or worse, your guests.
Usually, it is the smaller sized dogs that are encouraged to jump, because we find it cute Nuggets Nikola Jokic Jersey , and think it?s a sign of their affection. Bigger sized dogs are usually not trained to jump; in fact, jumping is a complete no-no because with their size, they are bound to topple you down or even bruise you with their paws.
Why Dogs Jump
Dogs usually jump because of excitement and as a greeting for their returning owner or family members. This is normal.
Some dogs do this to try to exert their domination over you, especially when they want something. Being pack animals and used to hierarchies in rank, it?s their way of trying to declare physical superiority over you or somebody else. Note the word ?trying.? A dog will do it if you let him. If you don?t want him to, then you will have to train him not to.
How to Curb the Jumping Habit
Be consistent. First Nuggets Michael Porter Jersey , you must remember that you will have to be consistent when training your dog to modify this habit. If you let him jump at you sometimes and forbid him from doing so at other times, he will not be able to tell the difference between these times. If you want him to stop the jumping habit, then don?t let him jump at you at all.
Do the cold shoulder. Dogs understand human body language. Teaching him that jumping is not acceptable by ignoring him is an effective training method. Whenever your dog jumps at you, fold your arms, turn away and ignore him. Each time he tries to jump do the same thing again, and eventually he will learn that this is unacceptable dog behavior. Body language is important here. By showing him Nuggets Malik Beasley Jersey , through your posture, that you don?t like what he?s doing you are conveying the message in a manner that he will learn to understand.
When the dog puts his paws back on the ground, praise him. This will teach him that having his paws on the ground, away from you, is good behavior.
Do not worry that your dog would be hurt by you being cold one minute and warm the next. Dogs have a very short training memory. They will associate your reaction to whatever behavior they are exhibiting at the time you reacted, and will forget that you were giving them the cold shoulder previously.
Remember Nuggets Jamal Murray Jersey , be consistent. Dog training takes time. Teaching a dog not to jump will involve hours and hours of doing the same thing, turning away and ignoring him when he does, and praising him and giving him a treat when he puts his paws down.
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By China Features writers Wang Chenxi and Liu Xin
BAOSHAN Nuggets Isaiah Thomas Jersey , Yunnan, April 30 (Xinhua) -- "Hush! They can hear us," Li Jiahong presses his hand to his lips, whispering.
Just meters above, two monkeys dangles on their long arms from the branches for a while, and then stop to rest under the cover of the thick canopy.
Li Nuggets Gary Harris Jersey , in his mid-50s, and his team are patrolling the Nankang Station area of Gaoligong Natural Reserve, in southwest China's Yunnan Province. The two monkeys they have been following all day are eastern hoolock gibbons, an endangered primate only found in southwestern Yunnan, northeast India and northern Myanmar.
A ranger for 19 years, Li could still pass as a school teacher once he's taken off he's green hat.
Li became fascinated with tales of the "black monkey" Nuggets Emmanuel Mudiay Jersey , the local name for the hoolock when he began work as a principal at a primary school in a village outside Baoshan City in 1980.
"Local lore had it that the black monkeys were monogamous, pairing for life, and the locals even believed their brains could cure epilepsy," Li recalls.
He went to the Gaoligong Mountains during school vacations to watch the hoolocks. Until in 1995, he quit his school job and went to work at Longyang Station in Gaoligong Natural Reserve.
The reserve, on the southeast edge of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Nuggets Dikembe Mutombo Jersey , covers more than 4,000 square kilometers and was listed by UNESCO as a World Biosphere Reserve and World Natural Heritage site in 2003.
Tracking hoolocks is never easy. Li planned the current excursion with a group of visitors a week in advance. Thanks to the fine weather and a bit of luck, he found signs of hoolocks near his current base at Nankang Station. A few hours' walk in the forest was enough to find them.
When he first started as a ranger, Li had no GPS or climbing gear, just cheap rubber shoes and ex-army camouflage fatigues. The station was a rundown shed made from bamboo and sticks.
"Finding a flat and dry place to rest during a patrol was a luxury," he recalls.
More challenging were the mountains. The ever-changing weather and varied terrain made every patrol unpredictable. Rangers could be dripping sweat in hot and damp subtropical forest in a river valley Nuggets Devin Harris Jersey , and frozen two hours later on a snowy mountain ridge.