Hyper greetings

[Cooper's mom]

I was just wondering if there are any other labdood owners that have one who gets extremely excited, cries, whines, and jumps on people when they come to the house?  He's a great dog, but I have never seen a dog so excited over people coming over.

Cooper's mom 

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

Oh, believe me you're not alone! LOL  We refer to people as "doodle candy" because when she sees one Tara behaves like a kid in a candy store!!  She is slowly improving and thank goodness she is a mini so she can't do any serious damage!  Now she does one jump onto her favorite people and has stopped jumping on total strangers (most of the time). There is still that random person that she will try to jump on in a store. Five people can walk past us and she will ignore them and the 6th person-bam-she nails them! OMD!!

[Rachel and Ollie]

Ollie does this too...I usually put him gated in the kitchen until people are ready to say hi to him. He whimpers and jumps up and all sorts of hyper excitement. This is something we also need to work at, but I hardly have company besides pizza delivery and apartment repair guys...for some reason I don't think they would appreciate me using them as training tools. 

[Kathy, Harley & Roxie]

Harley at 17 months still struggles with control when anyone comes to our house.  He doesn't do a traditional jump up on ya, more of a raring up and bumping into you and zero understanding of personal space.  He is a big boy, so he knocks you off balance very easy.   This and greeting other dogs (same exuberance)  has been our greatest challenge.  We also have found that COMPLETELY ignoring him...no touch, no talk, no eye contact...works best to calm him quickly.  Oh, also telling family to not talk to him in a high pitched voice.  

[Barbara B., Sasha & Oliver]

Oh yeah.... both my doodles give a more than necessary greeting to everyone - LOL.  When I come home from work or errands the doodles greet me like they have not seen me in years.  Ollie has a jumping problem that we are working on, he is very exuberant when greeting people.. he just loves everyone !!!

[Moe]

This is something we worked a lot on when Charlie was young. I used to have people ring the bell many times til she stopped reacting to it. She never barks at the doorbell. I have 4 kids whose friends are in and out all the time so I had tons of helpers to train her. I would have them 6-7 at a time come in and out of the house. They would come in and let her smell them and ask her to sit. If she sat they gave her a treat, if she jumped up they walked away. I think it worked because she had so much practice. II'd like her to sit on a mat when people come to the door but we are not there yet.

[Traci -Bexter & Maggie]

Yep...My Bexter goes nuts.  He jumps on people still.  I know I need to work on this, and we have a little, but admittedly not as much as we should.  He will sit when told, so I try to get him to sit when someone comes, but when I tell him "OK" (to release him from the sit), he just goes right back at it.  I should have been more consistent with training him to go to his "place" when company comes.  Now, we just say "off", but honestly he kind of ignores that.  My bad.  My Maggie is too shy to cause a problem when someone enters!  She stays clear!  If you want to solve the problem, be consistent in training.

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

This does take LOTS of training. Murphy just runs to see who it is then runs around like a crazy doodle for some toy to share with whoever entered. Jumping hasn't been a problem with him once I taught him to not jump. It took a knee to the chest from me a few times with a loud off! Doesn't ever jump on me but DH allows it, but he only jumps on him.
But Bella, although she is getting better with age, there was a time I couldn't get IN the door or even open the door for visitors, as she would run to the door, jump on it or body slam it if she heard someone coming. She'd be so excited you'd think they were coming to rescue her from this terrible life she has! Lol
So we worked hard on sit, back, off, and ignoring her once we or whoever came in.
Took quite awhile but she is much calmer. Now everytime there is someone at the door, I use it for training and tell them to sit and stay. I slowly open the door but if they budge, I close it, explaining to the person what we are doing and everyone has been very nice about it. And lots have said they were going to do this with their dogs too.
They stay until I say ok and then they greet and smell, but the person is in and prepared for it and not so overtaken by 120pds of wiggly fur circling then. After their meet and greet, they are told leave it and go outside.
This works for us, so good luck. Keep training!

[Ginny Nightingale]

I agree with Joanne--my dogs have had lots of training and are good away from the house, but terrible when company comes--way, way too excited--especially when my adult kids come for a visit--holy cow, they go nuts! We live in a quiet area and a person going by on the street is a big deal to them, so if a person actually comes to the door--well, that is really something to celebrate! My problem is that all three of them get going and I can't control all of them at once. My neighbor has started to bring dog cookies to make friends with the dogs and now they are TOTALLY NUTS when she shows up. :(

I know that some people leave a leash on the dog and if they jump, you can step on it. My friend has a young boxer she is training and when a bunch of us went to her house for a meeting, she had the dog on a leash with a choke chain and made her sit until she was calm. She said it has been a BIG job to calm this pup down, but she is consistent and determined.

[Maryann,Roo and Tigger]

Roo is the king of people excitement, all they have to do is make eye contact and ssssspronggg- he's all over them.  Tigger joins in but is somewhat less enthusiastic.  They are both over four and now will hold a down stay when people arrive except for when any of my kids arrive.  Then it's a free for all.

[Holly Paterniti]

Bear does the same thing when it is someone he knows :)  I am trying to train him out of it, but it is really difficult :(

[Michelle Motorola]

oh gosh! i thought this was a puppy thing and that Chloe would eventually grow out of it. She honeslty sounds like someone is hurting her she cries so loud from excitment.