George'sDad, that one is not too hard to fix,
teaching a dog to hold a sit when you open the door.
I began with my putting dog in sit, open door one inch. Naturally, Bud ran over to stick his nose in the one inch open door. no treat.
close door. no corrections, just close door.
start over.
Pleasantly put dog back in sit.
Try again. sooner or later, the dog will come to understand, "
OHhhh, dad wants me to keep my butt on the floor when he opens the door one inch, okay, gotcha!"
and when dog DOES hold his sit for a one inch open door, CLICK/TREAT.
repeat, repeat, etc.
Overtime, advance to a door open five inches, ten inches,
slowly slowly, advancing along.
Once dogs finally master sitting there to a fully open door,

now train dogs to be able to do SAME THING,
after you have knocked on the door. (increases excitement). Btw, dogs still bark, even when they WATCH YOU knocking on door!!


no volunteers needed yet!!
advance along, so dogs know, when you ask for a sit, and begin to open the door after an exciting
door knock, that the dogs DO hold that sit.
Then train all over again, for dogs to hold a sit
for a doorbell,
dogs will bark around, even if YOU are the one who reaches out there to ring your own doorbell,

ask for a sit. Open door one inch, then next time, open door 5 inches, and so on, CLICK/TREAT dogs holding the sit.
THEN, advance along to having
a real live human on other side. (this will take time, make the friend dinner for THEIR reward!!

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After dogs have mastered holding their sit, to that one human at the door,
help dogs generalize the idea to more and more humans, (it gets easier for each human, but that first one takes time)
teaching dogs, no matter WHO is at the door,
you guys all sit down when i open the door.
this one isn't that hard, imo. Ten minute lessons, twice a day, it won't take long.
GOOD LUCK!!!
You can probably train all your dogs together,
or one at a time, whatever you think works best for your pack.