Teenage dog such a pest to visitors

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I know it's not her fault- she's a very enthusiastic and sociable cocker spaniel (14 months old).
As soon as visitors arrive she forgets all the training we have been doing. She becomes completely hyper and constantly jumps up, counter surfs etc etc.
Guests must think we haven't done any work with her at all!
How would you approach visitors with a young dog in the house?

Thank you

You need to put her on a lead before you open the door so she can't practise the behaviour in the first place. Get her to sit to greet visitors, and praise/treat her when she listens.
Then, if she still tries to jump, tell visitors to ignore her completely until she has all four paws on the floor. No fussing, no eye contact, no strokes or treats at all until she's calm.
As soon as she's calm, praise her and she can have a fuss and a treat. As soon she jumps, all praise/fuss stops again until she's calm. And repeat, repeat, repeat!

Good luck :)

We’ve got a 9 month old who is exactly the same. Identical. Watching eagerly for tips!

Also take some of the heat out of the greeting

What tends to happen is the doorbell goes, we hurry to the door bell - (dogs excitment already up) we do happy greetings (dog excitment raised even more) people enter house dog tries to match our excitment and then chaos happens.

I would get dog used to door bell , ring it and feed treats on bed so when the door bell goes dog goes to bed initially.

I would open door with the dog in another room hopefully eating treats so chilling out. I would get all introductions out of the way, coffee made etc and when the room is calmer introduce the dog onlead to the situation..Guests told to ignore dog you can drop treats on the floor to give dog under threshold and focusing on you rather than mugging guests.

People coming into the house need to be a non event for the dog and politely be shown that it is "not their business"