No more dogpark until he stops jumping?

[Jarka, Monty & Auggie]

Another jumping problem here.

Auggie is a jumper. He jumps on people at Home Depot, at my work, at the dog park. He sees our neighbor smoking in their backyard and jumps up next to the wooden fence so that he can see above the fence. Our trainer could not come near him because he would jump on her.

The only progress we've made: he does not jump on me or my DH, and there is 90% less jumping at the trainer. But anywhere else, it's a disaster. When he meets people, he is so excited that he whines and wants to jump. It does not matter if people are facing him or not, if they are sitting on a bench texting. We go to a dog park and he runs around jumping on everyone. I run after him yelling OFF. Then he plays with other dogs and once in a while comes back and jumps on people. We don't have much visitors at our house, so the only training I can do is with strangers. Our trainer said that perhaps no more dog parks until he learns not to jump (since there is no way for me to control his behavior).  We are using clicker training. Any ideas what I should do when he is off leash in a park?

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

I found that neighborhood kids and teenagers at the park LOVE to help with greetings. 

[Carolyn Shusterman]

Would the following anti jumping harness help Auggie?

http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Products-No-Jump-Harness/dp/B00061MO5...

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

I totally agree that you would want to avoid the dog park until Auggie has been trained not to jump.  Each time he has an opportunity to "practice" jumping he is reinforced in the behavior....and you running after him yelling "off" just makes it more exciting.  He's in an excited state of mind when he jumps, and you need him to learn that he is not going to greet anyone until he is calm and listening to your "command".  You are going to need to tell him what you want him to do INSTEAD of jumping...that can be sit, stand or down.  Let's say you decide to use "sit" (although down may be better since it's more difficult for them to jump from that position), you would need to work this command around every type of distraction.  Maybe you could enlist the help of people at the dog park without actually taking him into the fenced area....catch them as they are coming or going.  You mention that you're clicker training....does that mean that you are only using reward and no correction?  If that's the case you can put him in a sit and ask the person to approach (without speaking to Auggie or even looking at him).  Put Auggie into his sit when the person gets close to you.  If he breaks and goes to jump I would turn him around quickly and walk away for a few steps and then try again.  He will learn that he doesn't get what he wants unless he is sitting calmly.  The real key IMO is turn around the second his mind goes into that excited state...so you'll have to watch the body language closely.  You will need to do this over and over in all kinds of settings.  I really think the reward will be actually allowing the "stranger" to pet or talk to Auggie....you probably don't even need to use treats.  I really don't think he'll be ready for the dog park until this is solid in other situations.  Once you take that lead off you have lost control and he pretty much gets to decide what to do.  If you do take him, try to avoid showing any emotion yourself.  If you do catch him jumping, I would calmly walk over grab his collar, leash him, and walk him right out of the park.  Make him wait outside until he's calm and try again.  Good luck.

[Lynn McMullin]

We are working on the same issue with Toby right now. Sitting, clicking and rewarding work unless its a new person and they have an overwhelming excited voice when they approach him. I am often asking them to step back and turn around so that I can get him to sit first. A man yesterday told me he would knee him if he tried to jump on him and I told him politely that he would not be meeting my Toby and we continued on our walk. We are about loving him, not hurting him. It's going to take some time but I know we will get there.