[~Kazoo & Soy Monster~]

So I have had this problem with Soy jumping up on people since day one. I've read countless articles and watched countless shows to try and curb this behavior. He won't jump up on me or my bf - he knows the rules and if for some reason - like we tease him or something and he goes to jump a simple off or no and he's back on all fours behaving wonderfully.
As SOON as there is another person in the picture (no matter how many times he's seen them), as soon as anyone comes to the door, a random person walks by us on the street he tries extremely hard to jump on them. It doesn't matter what we say, or if we use a corrective lead (it doesn't even phase him) he completely ignores us. Even basic commands he knows very well - like sit... if there is any one or anything anywhere in sight - he completely ignores us. If we have a treat however... then we have his undivided attention, until he gets the treat then as soon as it's down the hatch he goes right back to whatever he was doing...and ignoring us. It's getting very tiring. We've tried having our guests ignore him completely when they enter, turn their backs to him if he tries and jumps - this only makes him even more hyper, we've tried them handling treats when they come in and rewarding him when he sits calmly but again as soon as the treat is gone, he's back to jumping all over them. Even after they have ignored him, turned their backs to him and given him zero attention what-so-ever I can call him, and call him and call him till i'm blue in the face and he will completely ignore me unless i get right over him and yell as loud as I can.. then he will stop for a second ackowledge my existance, and the go right back to what he was doing. He is far from stupid, but unless there is a treat waiting for him he will play dumb and not do anything asked of him. It's a one way street with soy and I don't know what to do!!!
Anyone have any advice?? Please I'll try anything!!

[Marc]

It sounds like you may have already tried my method, but I'll try anyway. Have the visitor fold their arms, closing the inviting area for him to jump to. Them have them turn sideways and ignore him. If that doesn't work (give it a week or so before giving up) then switch to giving deep, sharp verbal "NO!"s instead of the silent treatment.

About the teasing. That is very counterproductive. I know it's fun, and I do it to my dogs, but I'm not trying to train out a behavior right now. You have issues with hyperactivity, and your dog needs to learn when it's okay to play and when it's not. I would suggest choosing a toy to use when you play with him. Sit down with this toy, and then allow your dog to be as hyper and jumpy as he wants. Put the toy away after playtime, and your dog must behave. When the toy is away, no teasing or encouraging him to be hyper. It's not human/dog playtime unless the that toy is out. He can have other toys, but have a specific one that looks different than his others for human/dog playtime.

Didn't think about this at first, but try a different food as well. They're all different and have different balances of sugarsroteins. It won'rt solve everything, but it could help. And don't over treat - make sure your treats are protein and not sugar, and aren't loaded up with sodium.

[cigwyllt]

My parents' dog used to do this. Lovely natured dog, very friendly and outgoing but very overexcited, especially when there were visitors. They consulted a trainer who suggested putting him on a very short leash - you can keep it by the door and clip it on when the door bell rings. Instruct your guests to ignore him completely, not even to make eye contact. Then when the guests have sat down someone (usually my mother) would hold the leash and tell him to "settle". Then he was ignored. When he did eventually relax he was praised quietly "Settle! Good boy" and given a treat. Then if he continued to sit or lie down in a calm manner the lead was dropped but not unclipped. If he greeted the guests calmly he was left loose but if he started to jump or climb he was returned to my mum and made to settle all over again.

It took a couple of months or so but he learned his lesson and he is now a lovely calm dog and knows his place when visitors come.

[~Kazoo & Soy Monster~]

Thanks both for the tips We definitely have tried our guests giving him the folded arms and turning their backs on him, no eye contacts and strict no's. When this failed we resorted to try keeping him on a leash... I think we'll just have to keep trying this. He'll settle momentarily, but then he'll sit their and cry becuase niether myself nore the guest is giving him any attention what-so-ever. I keep hoping he'll just realize his whining isn't helping and settle down, but he'll cry the WHOLE time we have a guest over. I'll distract him with treats, or a toy which he'll calmly play with (which is great), but if the guest makes any movement or stands up he's back at it... we just keep making him laydown and hand him back his treat. I feel like it's not a dominance thing but rather he would like to be eye level. He only does this with people over 4ft tall or so... when he meets children/babies he's VERY calm... submissive even. He'll lay right down and let them hug and kiss him and pull on his ears and big floppy lips and is an absolute gentlemen...but only to children.
Marc - He is very good about playing with his toys, and knows that we play fetch with the balls, and we play tug of war with his red squiggly thing and then the rest are his to play on his own with. When he'll jump up teasing it's more to "catch us" he LOVES playing catch, he'll chase my bf around the house for hours and wait around a corner to jump out at him as he flys by, but that's the only time he'll jump up at us.
We were walking him the other day, and this guy approached us cause Soy was bouncing around like a goof as usual trying to get the strangers attention. The man asked if he could "show us" something and picked up soy by the neck (not abusively though), and took him down to the ground and pinned him there till he stopped squirming. I was a little taken back this man just tossing my dog around like that....but soy was definitely not hurt (he's 65lbs of pure muscle) and as soon as the guy let go of him he was a perfect gentlemen. He didn't try once to jump on him, sat for him, laid down for him... was calm. But we can't expect everyone who meets soy to display that kind of dominance over him just for him to act calm.

[Lunareclipse]

We have saint bernards. One is a 140lb puppy. When he starts to jump, I give him a knee in the chest. It may sound cruel, but I really don't like going to the hospital so that's what I have to curb his jumping on me.