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Tell me about getting the dogs to the crate when the doorbell goes...
Herbie loves people coming to the house (when we're in) and always wants to greet them at the door. It's fine if you know and like him, and are confident enough to ignore him until he sits, but if not, you've got an excitable 50 kilo dog wanting to introduce himself. The solution, for the sake of the visitor, is to crate him first, but that's not ideal and potentially reinforces the bad behaviour.
Markyboy
no problem
both our dogs need additional training and we have recently started working with a trainer to help us.
timing of treats etc is critical to ensure you are training the appropriate behaviours rather than the dog demonstrating a behaviour to trigger a reward from the handler. we have gone right back to basics including crate training so that we can get our dogs to exhibit more self control. we have tried a few different trainers and behaviourists though some just made things far too complicated and resulted in very little change.
our dogs were going mental when anyone came to the house, but now when the doorbell goes they run to their crates instead. it seems often it is easier to train a new response rather than trying to modify an existing one.