Dog Health Questions: Dog training help needed!?

I need some help with my dog, he goes nuts when anyone comes to the door and jumps all over them when they come into the house. When it is people that know him and aren't fussed about his over excitement to see them I keep him in and just try to get him to stop as soon as I can but when its people that don't like dogs, are nervous of dogs, just don't like it or don't know him I have to leave him out the back garden. Its a real pain and I am starting up childminding and I have to have him in the house so I need to stop this behavior now, I will have the care commission officer coming round as well as perspective clients with their children and obviously this behavior is totally unacceptable. He is a great natured dog who is great with kids and very obedient in every other way, he doesn't have to go on the lead outdoors and comes back as soon as he is called, this is the only antisocial behavior he has at all and if I don't get it sorted out it has the potential to ruin this business. I am planning on either taking him to classes or getting a trainer to come to the house, I just wanted so see if anyone on here could help first.

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We have an "Invisible Fence" system at our house for our dogs. This system came with a remote control. The remote control can emulate what the invisible fence does. That is, it can make a beeping sound, and it can send out the shock through the shock collar that the dog must wear always. You can pick an invisible fence type system at Lowes, Home Depot, etc. How we trained our dogs to not go crazy when our own door bell rang was to use the remote control along with verbal commands to "NO BARK" or something along those lines. You can get an invisible fence type system that does not require using an in-ground wire. The ones I am thinking of use a base station and the dog must stay within a certain distance of the base station or the collar will warn, then shock the dog. Anyway, when the door bell rings our dogs were going nuts and were hard to catch. The remote on the invisible fence system allows negative reinforcement to the dog without having to run around and catch the dog. Start with verbal command, then warning beep on the collar a few seconds later, which comes from the shock collar, then use the shock itself if the dog does not obey. Follow this up with calming down the dog. Do this training on the dog with a friend that will be deliberately coming to the door over and over again to assist training the dog. After awhile the dog will learn to obey your command and no shock collar will be required. Good Luck.

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