Is this position a hound thing?
I'm trying to teach my 5-year-old Redbone Coonhound/Vizsla mix not to jump. I've done the "turn around" thing when she jumps, the "knee in dog's chest" thing (gently), and holding her down and redirect her to become a "leaner" instead of a jumper.
So what she now does is this: Instead of jumping, she puts her body between my knees, where her butt is in front of me and her head is behind me. Is this position a hound thing? I've never known a dog to do this. This is my first hound. Maybe she's got the leaner thing all wrong and it came out like this, I don't know.
When she does this, I scratch her back around her tail, which she loves, to re-enforce. It's better than jumping.
I adopted her when she was 10 weeks old. She's now almost 6 months old. She does funny things, like she goes "mmmm-rrrow-mmm" in the morning, a soft cooing murmur sound. She makes a funny sound when she yawns. She's very vocal. She also looks up at the sky when a plane goes by... none of my other dogs did that. People tell me that her breed likes to hunt deer and raccoons and such, but so far, she hunts butterflies (chases them)... maybe because she's only 5 months old, or maybe deer aren't her thing. She sits on my feet when I stand by the sink doing dishes. She wants to sleep on MY side of the bed instead of HER side of the bed. Is all this a hound thing?
