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[quote=Anonymous]Follow up from dog sitting thread….

Can anyone offer any advice for dealing with visitors and guests coming to the house? Our border collie flips out, barking and growling and jumping and lunging and scaring the guests.

I had to eventually just cage him while my kid’s friends came over to play, and it took him a good 10 minutes to calm down.  He was barking very loudly, growling and trying to jump on them. He just seemed out of control. Similar to how he gets with other dogs, particularly when we are in our own yard, and my kid is either holding his leash or the kids are just around. I think he is being protective. But he goes absolutely nuts and starts tearing apart our landscaping plants.

I don’t think my in-laws socialized him much apart from having us and a couple other families over. Because of covid concerns.

I tried to let him smell them. And then he started to calm. But then just started jumping on them and losing control and back to barking again. Not sure what else I could be doing. [/quote]

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