Glad to hear you're making progress 
As far as not jumping on people as they arrive, ask your guests not to look at, talk to or touch your dogs until they are calm or sit quietly whichever you prefer. We actually have this posted on our door and IMO it's harder to teach the people this behavior than the dogs. If everybody co-operates however, it works great. The dogs get excited over people coming to see THEM! Once they think that isn't the case they settle pretty quickly.
As far as the one on one time, I sooooo agree. I tried working with Blitz when Donner was around, with pretty limited success. Especially with hand commands, she just can't watch us both at the same time The more we have some "girl time" the more her confidence and focus improves. Good luck, let us know how it's going.
As far as not jumping on people as they arrive, ask your guests not to look at, talk to or touch your dogs until they are calm or sit quietly whichever you prefer. We actually have this posted on our door and IMO it's harder to teach the people this behavior than the dogs. If everybody co-operates however, it works great. The dogs get excited over people coming to see THEM! Once they think that isn't the case they settle pretty quickly.As far as the one on one time, I sooooo agree. I tried working with Blitz when Donner was around, with pretty limited success. Especially with hand commands, she just can't watch us both at the same time
The more we have some "girl time" the more her confidence and focus improves. Good luck, let us know how it's going.
