We got our cockerpoo in April as a 10 week pup.
She’s lovely but very very excitable. We’ve tried dog training, using training methods ourselves, we’re consistent in our approach, but nothing works. When she sees somebody she doesn’t know, even just walking past us on the street, she goes mad jumping at them trying to lick them. Of course this means she is always on a lead, but it just won’t calm down.
A delivery driver just came to the door, our floor has recently been replaced so the porch door won’t close properly. She managed to slip past me and went wild jumping all over him and licking him. It was really embarrassing and now I’m worried he will make a complaint about her or that her teeth/claws accidentally caught him (they didn’t but I’m a huge worried).
I’m going to put a stair gate across the hall until the porch door issue is fixed. But does anyone have any advice that might help? She really is very gentle; has never growled/snarled or shown a moment’s aggression, she’s just very excitable. She gets 2 walks a day (to an enclosed field where we only let her off if no other dogs) where she gets a good run around. The general advice on cockerpoo Facebook pages is that she’ll calm with age but when?