One of the most common questions that we get isn't Susan, what did you have for breakfast,

although it's right up there. It's Susan, how do I get my dogs to stop jumping on people?

And as common as it is, the fix is actually quite simple. It's three steps. And trust me, the third step is something

nobody would have ever told you before.

Hi, I'm Susan Garrett.

Welcome to Shape by Dog.

Before we jump into how to get our dogs to stop jumping on people, I think it's important

that we understand the why.

Once you understand the why your dogs are jumping up, then you can decide which tactic

is going to work best for you and your

dog. Believe it or not, the primary reasons that dogs jump up is because they're rewarded for jumping

up. And you can say, Susan, no, oh, you got it wrong. I've never given my dog a cookie for jumping up.

Stick with me on this. Because it started long before you ever got your dog. When

puppies are young, they're little. And who doesn't like the smell of puppy breath? So guess what?

We sit on the floor, we coo-ch-coo, we encourage the puppies to come up and find our face.

And this is great. And there's an old saying, what you learn first, you learn best.

So puppies learn when you seek humans' face. Good things happen. You get all this love and

attention and everything's amazing. And then guess what? They stop being little puppies. And we start

standing up and they're like, how do I get to that that face? I've got to get to that face.

They do the only thing they know how to do,

and that is to put the paws up to try to get to that face.

It makes sense, right?

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