Why Dogs Get Excited Or Hyper
Dogs get excited.
That's a fact that is quite obvious to most people.
However when it comes to dog owners they seem to get very bewildered when their nice dog is suddenly humping every leg he sees.
Or running around the house like his tail is on fire, tearing up the carpets and knocking over lamps and tipping over chairs.
They especially don't like it when Rover comes running into the room straight to the owner who is sitting with his cup of coffee, watching the T.
V.
and jumps up, knocking poor dog owner clean out of his chair and on the floor.
I always tell my clients that what they view as problem behavior, is really just normal dog behavior.
An excited dog is a normal dog, they are very active and if untrained can get into a lot of trouble.
The shelters are full of so-called excited/hyper dogs, whose only crime was they got bigger.
You see, all to often people get a new puppy and they think they are just the cutest things.
They love them and kiss them and when little Rover jumps up and puts his little paws on their owners legs, in almost every case they will reach down, pat the puppy and say, "Hi puppy, who's a good boy, you want a treat", and here it begins the short trip to the dog pound.
Without even realizing it the dog owner has just rewarded the puppy for jumping up.
The pup grows up thinking that it is OK to jump up and greet his owners and other people.
However when the dog reaches 5-6 months of age and is much bigger and heavier, he starts to knock people down when he greets them, or he paws little children in happy excitement and hurts them, because his nails are very sharp.
This is when dog owners start to have problems with these untrained dogs.
They think they can yell at the dog and make it do what they want, as if the dog understands what their owners are saying to them, which they could if they were taught English during puppy-hood.
I have trained my dog's to understand around 20 words and I can use them in sentences and my dogs know what I am asking.
There are other things you can do to help your excited dog to settle down.
Teach him to go to his bed and settle down, train him to sit/stay.
If your dog is sitting there is not much trouble he can get into.
It is important to remember that even problem dogs are good most of the time, and should be praised for their good behavior, not just punished for what they do wrong.
This is not fair to the dog.
Take a look at your dog every minute or so for a while and you will see that for the most part he is being good.
He just needs the owner to teach him how to behave in a proper way.
I tell my clients to ask themselves this question.
If what your dog is doing is wrong, then what is the right thing to do, and then teach your dog how to do it.
If you take anything away for this article today it should be this.
Dog owners need to realize that their dogs get excited and are active by nature and their behavior is totally normal.
The dog is not being bad, they don't even know they are doing something wrong, they just need to be taught what is right.
That's a fact that is quite obvious to most people.
However when it comes to dog owners they seem to get very bewildered when their nice dog is suddenly humping every leg he sees.
Or running around the house like his tail is on fire, tearing up the carpets and knocking over lamps and tipping over chairs.
They especially don't like it when Rover comes running into the room straight to the owner who is sitting with his cup of coffee, watching the T.
V.
and jumps up, knocking poor dog owner clean out of his chair and on the floor.
I always tell my clients that what they view as problem behavior, is really just normal dog behavior.
An excited dog is a normal dog, they are very active and if untrained can get into a lot of trouble.
The shelters are full of so-called excited/hyper dogs, whose only crime was they got bigger.
You see, all to often people get a new puppy and they think they are just the cutest things.
They love them and kiss them and when little Rover jumps up and puts his little paws on their owners legs, in almost every case they will reach down, pat the puppy and say, "Hi puppy, who's a good boy, you want a treat", and here it begins the short trip to the dog pound.
Without even realizing it the dog owner has just rewarded the puppy for jumping up.
The pup grows up thinking that it is OK to jump up and greet his owners and other people.
However when the dog reaches 5-6 months of age and is much bigger and heavier, he starts to knock people down when he greets them, or he paws little children in happy excitement and hurts them, because his nails are very sharp.
This is when dog owners start to have problems with these untrained dogs.
They think they can yell at the dog and make it do what they want, as if the dog understands what their owners are saying to them, which they could if they were taught English during puppy-hood.
I have trained my dog's to understand around 20 words and I can use them in sentences and my dogs know what I am asking.
There are other things you can do to help your excited dog to settle down.
Teach him to go to his bed and settle down, train him to sit/stay.
If your dog is sitting there is not much trouble he can get into.
It is important to remember that even problem dogs are good most of the time, and should be praised for their good behavior, not just punished for what they do wrong.
This is not fair to the dog.
Take a look at your dog every minute or so for a while and you will see that for the most part he is being good.
He just needs the owner to teach him how to behave in a proper way.
I tell my clients to ask themselves this question.
If what your dog is doing is wrong, then what is the right thing to do, and then teach your dog how to do it.
If you take anything away for this article today it should be this.
Dog owners need to realize that their dogs get excited and are active by nature and their behavior is totally normal.
The dog is not being bad, they don't even know they are doing something wrong, they just need to be taught what is right.
