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Anonymous wrote:OP here. My dog is huge and the last thing I want when I come home is being pushed around and blocked, trying to grab my dinner and just out of control behavior. She’s learning patience and that I am the boss. I see so many people who let their dogs control them.
I also find it extremely annoying when I visit people who let their dogs jump all over you! I will never allow that kind of behavior when I have company. Not only is it rude, it’s a liability with our dog.

Sounds like you need training help with a lot more than just “greeting”. Have you looked into those dog training boot camp things?

I don’t need training anymore! She is doing great and about 80% there with consistent training. When I get home she will pop her head up and look at me and sometimes she will start walking towards me but at a calm pace. I just have to motion back to her place and she is doing it. And this is even while holding a bag of fried chix! Now that’s discipline.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My dog is huge and the last thing I want when I come home is being pushed around and blocked, trying to grab my dinner and just out of control behavior. She’s learning patience and that I am the boss. I see so many people who let their dogs control them.
I also find it extremely annoying when I visit people who let their dogs jump all over you! I will never allow that kind of behavior when I have company. Not only is it rude, it’s a liability with our dog.

Sounds like you need training help with a lot more than just “greeting”. Have you looked into those dog training boot camp things?

OP here. My dog is huge and the last thing I want when I come home is being pushed around and blocked, trying to grab my dinner and just out of control behavior. She’s learning patience and that I am the boss. I see so many people who let their dogs control them.
I also find it extremely annoying when I visit people who let their dogs jump all over you! I will never allow that kind of behavior when I have company. Not only is it rude, it’s a liability with our dog.

I'm team OP on this one. I have a large dog, and when I get home from work (or the store or whatever), I don't want him to be whining or slobbering or bouncing or shedding all over my nice clothes when I have my hands full of stuff. He wags his tail and politely waits or calmly follows me while I put stuff down, change clothes, go to the bathroom, etc for 10 minutes or so. Then he gets excited and races to the door for our walk and play session or heads over to the couch for a cuddle session. It works for us, and I appreciate his composure. It is very easy to train this behavior and entirely appropriate. If you would rather have the fun excitement when you enter the house, then go for it. But to say that we "don't understand dogs" is a bit ridiculous.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Milan is not held in high esteem by the Veterinary community
https://drsophiayin.com/philosophy/dominance/

But it makes sense that OP would love him, right? Neither understands dogs. They can get the results they want, but it's effed up.

Yes it totally makes sense! Two peas in a pod. Sad.

Anonymous wrote:
Milan is not held in high esteem by the Veterinary community
https://drsophiayin.com/philosophy/dominance/

But it makes sense that OP would love him, right? Neither understands dogs. They can get the results they want, but it's effed up.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are you going to do if you have kids and they start running to greet you??

That’s a moronic question!

How? OP said herself she doesn’t want to be bothered by a human or a dog when she comes home.

What about a cat??
Oh nevermind….. cats could care less when their owners come home.

Unless they are starving.

I’m the opposite. I no longer work outside the home, so I come and go all day, and about half the time, if he’s in the middle of a really comfy snooze on the couch, my dog doesn’t even get up to greet me. It bums me out. I agree that the excited greeting at the door is one of main joys of dog ownership.

I feel sad for the dog.

Imagine feeling so much joy for someone and then having to slowly come to the realization that they are not happy to see you back.

Does the dog ever come to you in excitement? Do you ever go to her excited? I think there is a difference between "the dog doesn't come to greet me but 20 min later we are playing on the floor and she's so excited to see me" and the dog thinking you are cold and distant.

I'm the opposite. I work a very stressful job and love to hear my dog bounding down the stairs to greet me. I don't have to talk. I don't have to do anything but sit on the floor and give her scratches while she nuzzles me.

Why buy a dog if you don't want them to be excited to greet you? Get a cat. You are fighting evolution, literally.