Dogs with Bad Manners

One thing I really hate is when I visit someone who has a dog with no manners in their home. My sister's dogs jump all over anyone who comes through her door. At Christmas I dropped my son off for her to babysit while my husband and I went to my company Christmas party, and left her house with long (very unattractive) scratches all down my legs where they had jumped all over me.

Some friends of ours had two huskies who would beg for food at the table and would even snatch food off our plates if we weren't watching them every second!

My own puppy has started doing these very same doggy misbehaviors (which is really just natural dog behavior), such as jumping up on our legs while we're at the table eating dinner and jumping up on guests when they come into our house. A couple of times I've overheard my son's friends telling him that our dog is too annoying. ;_; Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can train her not to do these things? Any advice you have would be very much appreciated.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

She's so feisty. BAD DOG and NO worked for a while, but she's completely immune to the firm tone now. The knee thing might work, since she can jump to well above our knees now.

I've always heard that Jack Russell Terriers are hard to train, and now I believe it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I think he's talking about clicker training. You actually click this little thingy. I've seen dogs on TV who know that one click means sit, two clicks means stay, etc. It's pretty cool.

Those are good suggestions, by the way. I'm going to try some of these and see if they work for me.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.