Ive sent you a personal message hun giving the details of an excellent personal trainer from Chester

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hi there. the first thing is , do not stroke him when he is doing something you dont want him to do. the way a dog will see it, is that you are praising him for his actions. dogs will do anything for human attention. the way that i would deal with this is to coax him of with a toy or treats. stand up and call him off the sofa with the toy or treat. giving the command off . when he does this give him lots of praise and fuss.

Don't be scared, get yourself a can and fill with dried beans and rattle it every time he goes on the sofa. He has to learn that the sofa is your place not his. When he's older you may well choose to let him back on the sofa but you have to be cruel to be kind now to prevent him thinking he's the alpha male.

As you dog matures you can often relax the rules a little and there is nothing wrong with this, just as long as he knows that the sofa is invite only and not his place.

Sorry Richard I disagree with your advice - no-one should be rattling things at dogs without being given proper training in the use of such items

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Im also going to disagree. shaking objects at your dog will likely frighten or confuse him. if i was doing something and someone rattled an object at me id be like wot the hell you doing?? i dont think the dog is trying to be alpha dog either unless he wants to mate with the alpha female which i highly doubt. just get a good behaviourist in to observe the behaviour and they will come up with a positive, reward based training programme for you.

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As alraedy said, it might be a dominance issue. It seems he's jumping onto the sofa to get a higher position. He's trying to be pack leader and get a high position to look down on the pack i.e. you.

Try putting a trainning lead on him maybe, and use some food.

It's not a dominance issue it's a training issue.

Well said, but if people suggest it is a dominance issue, then that is down to a problem with the dog, not their ability to train it. I am sure that is why so many favour dominance theory.

Every problem is down to dominance apparently.