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Thanks..I am hoping that the chewing will stop as she outgrows "puppy Phase" -- have owned 3 Goldens and 2 blacks, so I know all about the first 2-3 years, just have never had this much trouble breaking it. But, as I said, she is a rescue, the others were all puppies when I got them. So I am not only training her to us, but UNTRAINING the first year of her life.

I actually have gotten her to stop jumping up on me (Like you said - Command voice/lead dog), but for some reason she refuses to listen around others. Just have to find out the magic key to get her to behave around the rest of the family/friends. It is not agressive action at all, just the standard playful greeting type jumping.

Just annoyed that I cannot get her to stop. But, I have only had her 7 months, and we have made great great strides in that time, so I am sure the rest will come.

When she sits at my feet and lays that big ole strawberry blonde head in my lap all is forgiven.

Enlist some friends to help. They can correct her when she tries to jump on them, just have everybody coached as to the correct method. Then try the same thing out and about - at the shopping center, the mall, etc.

Dogs are situational - she doesn't connect "don't jump up on Alpha Dog at home" with "don't jump up on anybody else, anywhere."

Easy for me to say . . . Miss Ruby is a dedicated jumper. She's starting to get the message though.