Dogs with Bad Manners

I used to have a similar problem with my dogs Alice: Jumping all over visitors and begging for food at the table.

We still haven't found a solution to the "jumping on people like crazy" thing yet besides firmly stomping the ground with a leg and saying firmly "NO!" or "Shush!" when you see them coming. Another thing that works if your dog has gotten used to his name and a nickname (Or just his/her name) would be to call them by their name firmly and clapping once or twice when doing so. That works wonders with my dog xD

About the begging for food part, just don't feed them human food, they get used to it and want some whenever they smell it. If you start feeding the dog a few pieces of a chocolate bar, for example, soon you'll find that the dog begins to react to the sound of a plastic wrapper opening up and that you won't even be able to eat cereal without the dog scratching your leg asking for some, I'm talking from experience. @_@;;;

The trick is to never feed the dog human food and to feed it always at the same hour or at about the same hour (Preferably not around the times your family tends to eat), then take away it's food after the dog eats, so it gets used to having a "feeding schedule" of some sort and realizes that it should eat as much as it can during that time so it won't be hungry later.

Sure, it's heartbreaking when during the very first days your dog cries and looks at anything you eat like it is the last can of coca cola in the desert, but eventually the dog will get used to it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.