| | Today, my friend and I went to visit his girlfriend, and this is the first time I've been to her house. Well, she had a little dog, who decided to jump on my lap and try to kiss me. Later, the girlfriend picked the dog from my lap. A similar incident with small dogs happened at my cousin's apartment, where his girlfriend's two little dogs just jumped on my lap without permission. My cousin said dogs could sense I'm a friendly person. Well, I decided to look up "dogs jumping on laps" and it turns out the act is a sign of establishing dominance over the human, for space has to do with signs of respect. When a dog jumps on a person's lap uninvited, the dog is claiming dominance/ownership over the human rather than a sign of love. It's something we tend to let small dogs get away with because we think it's cute. The website,http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/articles/smalltoydogs.htm, says humans should always dictate what a dog can or cannot do and demonstrate to the dog that the human owner is the pack leader. This includes having the dog walk beside or behind the human, permission to sit on lap, permission to growl, and permission on where to sleep.
If the dog jumps on a person's lap uninvited, the person is to prod the dog until the dog moves off on its own.
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