[Anymouse]

My precious blue healer mix is out of control. My beagle will react to my cues to calm down, but I cannot seem to stop her from jumping on me and other people. She pulls enthusiastically when we walk. I've tried ignoring her and standing still until she behaves but she just continues to circle and jump. How can I take over the reins in this relationship? Any hints?

[skelaki]

How old is she? What type collar are you using? The best thing I've found for pulling is as they start past you, turn without saying anything and go quickly in the opposite direction. If the dog's paying attention she'll turn with you. If she does praise her. But, if she's not paying attention, she'll hit the end of the lead and self correct. At that point, she'll probably turn and start in your direction. Praise her. If she starts to run past again, turn again. Sooner or later she'll figure she better stay where she can keep an eye on the crazy human.

As far as the jumping goes you may need to go to corrections but first try teaching her some alternative behaviors. If she's reliably trained in basic obedience commands, teach her to sit before she gets any attention. My first collie was a jumper and he was the first one I taught to sit and offer a paw as a greeting. I also taught him an "it's ok to jump" command. If I clapped my hands once and then put them in front of me palms up, he could jump up and place his front paws on my hands.

[DogsforMe]

For jumping up try turning your back & ignoring her. Only give any attention when she has all 4 paws on the ground. Don't react in any way, no looking at, touching or pushing away. She only wants your attention whether positive or negative. When she sits nicely give her lots of praise & a food treat.
For pulling try standing still when the leash is taught, only moving forward when its slack. Or skelaki's method of turning, or take 2 steps back every time she pulls forward. She'll get to learn that she only goes forward without pulling. If all else fails you can use a halti.

[skelaki]

While a Halti can help prevent pulling it doesn't teach the dog to make the correct decission not to pull, and if the dog happens to be an extra strong puller a head halter like a Halti can cause serious neck and spinal injuries. If all you want to do is prevent pulling and the dog is a strong puller, I'd go with one of those no-pull harnesses rather than a head halter.

[Anymouse]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Normie is about 5 years old. We rescued her from someone who didn't train her at all. She's not even housebroken. I'm trying to go slowly and it's hard with Baxter the beagle to contend with too. For right now I just want her to calm down a little so she doesn't hurt me with her claws while I am trying to cuddle her.

I will try the two steps back while walking, and ignoring her when putting on the leash. She will sit for a nanosecond and then starts jumping again. Last time we walked I tried waiting until she calmed down before putting the leash on but I finally gave up.

She wears a regular collar from the pet store. I recently put one of those shoulder type harnesses on her because her neck is bigger than her head and she can pull out of the regular collar when she gets really excited. It seems to work better.

Again thanks for any help you guys can provide, and for all your suggestions so far.

[skelaki]

You might have to go with a training collar of some sort but first I'd go with a martingale collar, which will give a soft correction and she will not be able to slip out of it. I used a martingale collar for my rough collie because he, having that narrow collie head, would slip out of a regular buckle collar also.

And you can use the martingale collar as her regular collar as well as her walking and training collar.