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Old December 5th 07, 04:36 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
Shelly
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Last night, I was out back with Harriet, and Across the Hall Neighbor
was on her patio, sweeping. She came over to chat, and Harriet was
Little Miss Manners. Until, that is, AtHN stepped back, looked Harriet
in the eye, and spread her arms. Uh-oh! I knew what was coming just a
split second before it happened. To Harriet's credit, it was more like
she stood up on her hind legs, then gently placed her feet on AtHN's
chest, than it was a full-fledged jump-on-human. But, still, it's not
a good thing.

The lemonade is, she's pretty good about the jumping thing, especially
considering she's a Boxer, so we don't get many opportunities to
reinforce proper feet-on-the-ground behavior.

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Old December 6th 07, 01:30 AM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
Chris Williams
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Good on Harriet! And you -- I've been waiting to hear about her. She's
a properly socialized lady.
I take two Bostons, 2yo male and 9mo female, about for therapy visits.
Half the people invite them to jump up and are hurt if they don't, so I
reteach 4onthefloor every 5 minutes. The elder is beginning to learn
Harriet's skill at not putting weight on people, but his little sister
will try to climb their frame and suffocate them with her tongue. I'm
counting on maturity.

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Old December 6th 07, 02:45 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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Terri wrote:

Heh. Champ was the only dog I had that did something similar to
that. He knew he wasn't supposed to jump on people and didn't but with me,
in his excitement to see me, he'd boing up and down.


Awww! It's hard not to appreciate such obvious delight in your
existence.

Harriet does the "boing up and down in front of you" routine. I
think it's kind of cute, especially the way she splats herself on
landing (it involves play bows, vibrating nubbins, and ginormous
Boxer smiles, lather, rinse, repeat).

Others might not think it's so cute, but as long as she doesn't
boing *on* them, I think that's their problem, not ours.
Andplustoo, she only does that for a select few people, most of whom
would be more than happy to have her actually jump on them.

Every once in awhile
he'd propel himself forward a bit too much mid-boing then he'd kind of
reach out with a paw and "steady" himself by tapping that foot off my
chest.


Not a big deal, I think. Others MMV, of course, but I think the
occasional misjudgment of one's position in time and space is to be
expected.

Alsotooplus I think there's a t-shirt in here courtesy of Ms. Harriet:

"Outstretched arms get filled with Boxer Boings"


Resistance is futile!

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