When your dog was a puppy, it would greet its mother and its siblings by jumping on them. As your puppy grew into an adult, its inbred instincts to jump on people in greeting is just an extension of how it would excitedly jump up on a member of its canine family.

Attempting to break your dog of this habits is almost impossible. It sees you touching people in greeting (handshakes, hugs, etc.) and it just feels that greeting people should be done how IT has always expressed its feelings.

No matter how many times you tell your dog to “get down” or try to restrain it, it will, at some point, jump up on a person to extend good manners and properly greet him or her. In order to learn more, you can go ahead and head to the website for the pet clinic El Dorado Hills.