Help, puppies running towards cars/people when entering the stables.

[gumpatrump]

We have 3 puppies at our yard, a collie, a labrador and a great dane. They are very friendly but get super duper excited when people drive or walk into the yard. They all run straight up to moving cars and jump all over them, wanting to say hi, often with some barking. Is there any way to prevent this behaviour as it worries me so much that one day someone will drive into the yard to fast and hit one of them. They just seem to have no awareness about cars at all! How do you train puppies (especially 3 together - they seem less obedient when together) not to run to or after cars?

 

[Skhosu]

Each owner needs to have the dog on a lead and train them to react in a calm manner, by only letting them greet the car person when they are calm or something along those lines?

 

[CorvusCorax]

I love dogs but I'd be tee'd off if that happened at my yard, there is the obvious danger to the dogs - and having two that jump myself, scratched paintwork on motors!
What if someone comes into the yard on other business, that is scared of dogs?

These dogs should be on leads/in a secure area while their owners are busy with horses.
If it was me getting out of a car, I would say a very firm 'NO' in a loud voice and ignore/body block them for a good few minutes until I was ready to give them attention.

 

[Stinkbomb]

Whats to stop the puppies not running away?? Can they get out onto the road???

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Owner/owners needs to train them seperately first. Nobody should expect a puppy/young dog to be able to do something in the company of other dogs, that it hasn't had a chance to learn on a lower difficulty level first.
It's like expecting somebody that tells you they want to begin jogging as a training, to accompany you on your marathon traininground next day...

Train with harness + long line or on a lead, teach them one by one that cars is only allowed to be looked at from a distance, if not owner also approaches. When they've learned that, then you start training them together with the other dogs.
If it can't be done/doesn't work, give them something else to do, let them use their noses to find treats their owner scatter around on the ground, maybe owner can bring something like a filled frozen Kongs to give their dog when they're at the yard?
If nothing else works, maybe make a kennel of some sort for the owners to put their dogs in, or put up a fence around the carparking area?

As Hacking hack says, aren't they scratching the paintwork?
If the owner/owners aren't up for the extra training, tell everyone to ignore them, behave as if they're simply not there, do nothing that they possibly can view as an acknowledge of that you know they're there.

from Sweden.

 

[SunshineTallulah]

Unless the owners take charge, chances are that the puppies won't stop until one of them gets hurt, then its too late.

 

[louise1967]

I know what you mean, I have 2 lab puppies at the mo, plus I have their mother who is perfect, my pups are the same running into our ponies back legs and in front of cars, I have taken to tieing them up untill I am free to watch them, whlst their mother is allowed to roam. If I remember rightly my adult lab was 7 months when she started showing signs of the dangers around her, I used to take her out riding with me on the main roads from 12 months and she is ok no. I thing having more than 1 pup together is trouble I have found definately, mine are both 5 months and they wind each other up and drive me mad.