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The way it was described to me was that barking at visitors is now his 'job' in his eyes and you'll have to train him to have a different 'job' when someone comes to the door. The training vid we saw was to have someone come to the door and knock, you have Ollie on the lead and when they arrive you ask him to go to his bed (take him there if necessary) and reward him when he sits down. Repeat etc.
Comet will go crazy when someone comes to the door. He isn't agressive he just really wants to meet the new person, but the poor person doesn't know that. We haven't been committed or consistent enough using the above method so we've not made a lot of progress but he is better. Postie just rolls his eyes at him now.
MrSweary-
The training vid we saw was to have someone come to the door and knock, you have Ollie on the lead and when they arrive you ask him to go to his bed (take him there if necessary) and reward him when he sits down. Repeat etc.
This struck a chord with me because this is what we trained Otto to do from a pup...go to his crate when the doorbell rings. We did it because we were worried about somebody coming to the door who is afraid of dogs but maybe we unwittingly trained him to not bark at the doorbell!
Stonehedge
Over the last few months Our dog Ollie has started go mad when anyone comes to the door or is in the house, before it was just the usual few barks, now its fully on barking and he will continue until the person leaves or he gets fed up. There are a few people he loves but everyone us gets barked out.
Have tried a few things, ignoring him, letting him come and see who it is but that's not really made any difference. Not sure what's triggered this but its becoming a bit of an issue, especially as my nephews don't want to come around anyone because Ollie barks at them. Any tips