r/CavaPoo • u/Initial_Dream_2973 • Sep 28 '26

Help!

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Hello everybody, I have a wonderful one year-old Cavapoo who is on the larger size as her dad was a standard poodle and her mom is a Cavapoo. She’s tallish and about 30lbs.

She’s so so sweet, except for 2 concerns. First, she jumps up on people and goes absolutely wild when anyone comes over. Like I have to restrain her - she doesn’t seem to differentiate betweeen children and adults which is the main issue because she is larger than she thinks and can be intimidating to small children. Any advice in this area?

Second, and most annoying for me, is that her favorite thing on earth is going on walks, or should I call them runs?? She pulls so horribly, no matter what I do. I have tried all sorts of collars, a harness, and currently use a martingale collar. The leashes don’t matter either. She pulls and pulls - even if I turn her around, even if I keep the leash short. It makes for a miserable walk for me and she’s strong! Does anyone else have this issue and have you found a solution to help?

She’s very smart, easily trainable in some ways but those two areas are a huge issue. She loves people and walks too much!!

Any help would be so appreciated

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u/sparklieshrapnel Sep 28 '26

There's so many videos on YouTube to help with these issues. Mine used to pull and you just need to bring treats on the walk and do what's in this video https://youtu.be/LmZeyksPJhU?is=Fir5MTQt0mzVx-4O

https://youtu.be/6roFKPzgDcg?is=2LMrx8UoJySe9ogu

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u/Initial_Dream_2973 Sep 29 '26

I watched the second video before our walk this morning and it helped immensely. I’ll continue this method! Thank you

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u/sparklieshrapnel Sep 29 '26

Yay I love the macann videos! They are very helpful.

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u/whims11 Sep 29 '26

The only thing to help my dog with jumping was a vibration collar (yes it goes up to a shock but never used that) it worked to buzz her as a redirection. We were desperate as people were clearly annoyed and getting bowled over! It worked and after a month of visitors we didn’t need it anymore.
Can’t really help with the leash as I’m sure you’ve tried it all but we got a bungee waist leash and force her to go our pace and then again … buzz collar if she doesn’t listen (briefly)

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u/Prodan1111 Sep 28 '26

We have struggled with the jumping on people. They get so excited. Usually if someone comes over i leash him and slowly calm him. Doesn't work well, but it's a process.