Hello guys, im coming to the end of my 'make a post' marathon....
We have noticed recently that Daisy is unusually good at standing on her hind legs. She only uses this technique to try and eyeball the food bowl that we put on a cabinet while the water soaks in...a period of which she hates
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She used to try and claw up the cabinet but that was clearly not acceptable behaviour. Giving her a stern "NO" everytime she made contact with the cabinet soon sorted that out so now she has resorted to simply standing next to it, her paws never touch the cabinet yet she is able to stand up-right for ages, only time she ever comes back down is when we begin to laugh or make a noise, she then turns her head and looses balance.
We also have a baby gate on the kitchen as she has developed a nasty habit of sniffing the cheese while its still in the grill......sniffing 220c cheese will REALLY hurt so we thought we'd save on vets trips and her nose and just lock her out of the kitchen when we are cooking. Again, she doesnt like putting her paws on the cold slidy metal, weird i know but works for us. She does insist on standing up infront of it though. She'll then poke her nose forward to smell the cheese and this'll put her off balance but she sometimes manages to regain balance by spinning her front paws round in the air.....skills. Something we definately would like to attach to some kind of command.
We have taught her and "up" command which is used to jump into the boot of the car, run up the stairs to the front door (i live in 1st floor flat), get up from a 'down' position and to jump up to us (sometimes in the new forest she gets stuck when we treck through fields of brambles ect, and we need her to jump up so we can carry her across it.
Sadly, we do have an isssue with jumping up, it seems to be her common method of greeting and i thought that maybe training it to a command would help curb it as she still gets to jump when told but realises that only when told..... this has not worked one bit so we have abandoned all hope and just gone with not allowing any form of jumping on humans.
My question to you is, is there anyway of training her to stand without suggesting that we want her to jump or making the jumping issues worse. We have tried well timed rewards but its hard to get her to realise that what we want is infact the up she is doing but not a set of 5-10 quick jumps but 1 sustained stand where back legs stay on ground and front paws are not leant on me. I know she can do it, she knows she can do it, im just not suggesting the right idea to her.