Toilet Training / Jumping up

[NatSim]

Hi Everyone,

Could use some advice on a few issues we are experiencing with our 4 year old male Staffordshire Bull Terrier (Des).

1. How can we get him to stop jumping up ourselves and visitors when walking into the house? He does this on initial greeting and then within about 10 minutes of doing what we have come to call his 'tribal dance' he calms down and as good as ignores everyone. It can become quite uncomfortable for some visitors which we have.

2. We allowed him to have the free run of the downstairs of the house and up until recently he was good in the toilet area, told us when he needed to go outside to the toilet and was clean through the night and during the day when we are both at work for 8/9 hours. Now he is good during the day, with the odd exception, but through the night there nearly always seems to be a mess on the living room floor. He only has the living room of a nighttime as we have a kitten who has the kitchen area.

Any help or advice would be really appreciated as the toilet issue is starting to become a big issue within the household.

Thank you in advance to you all.

[WufWuf]

If you re-post this in the Dog Training Advice section you'll get more responses as it's much busier.

If you could also include some more detail about your dogs life such as training, exercise, diet, games, how long have you had him, how much time he spends alone any thing you can think of it'll really help people to give you the best answers for your situation.