Originally Posted by sljolander

I had the same thing with my young dog a few years ago. After trying everything I finally tried a friends suggestion of stepping on her back paws when she is jumping up. I know it does not sound "nice", but it only took a few times and she decided it was not worth it.
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I did this with our rescue Dobermans, plus the knee in the chest. After the first couple of days none of them ever jumped up on anyone again. One of them, our dear Kurt, would bounce up and down in front of us, "smiling" in eagerness to come with us. That smile scared a few visitors==here was a huge Doberman jumping up and showing his teeth at us!!! But he never touched anyone when jumping.
I was pack leader, had to be because DH was such a softy with our critters. Our fur babies were all adults when we got them, huge, powerful and abused, so we started off with loving them. Any child or animal wants to be part of the family, and they quickly learned that good behavior got them in the house, behaving badly got them ordered out into the back yard.

It does take the whole family working together to make an animal one of the family, but they will be full of love all their lives, and very welcome to visit with anyone who comes in the front door.