Misty is just about a dream dog to own apart from one thing - her manners are terrible when anyone visits or we go visiting other people. She gets herself so worked up she screeches in excitement, her whole body shakes, her teeth chatter and she jumps all over people and sometimes her furious licking turns to mouthing. This will go on for about half an hour at least. She's 19months old now and I thought she might have calmed down a bit by now but if anything she's actually getting worse.
She's particularly bad when going to relatives houses (I'm sure dogs have a way of detecting their owner's blood relatives), it takes her ages to calm down. Even when she has calmed, if anyone leaves the room for just 5 minutes on their return she goes nuts again, climbing on whichever piece of furniture can get her closest to them. It's great that she likes people so much but it can get embarrassing at times. Jimmy used to be quite bad for it too, but as long as he has a ball or toy in his mouth he tends to just wiggle round in circles now, rather than launch himself at people.
I've tried putting Misty out the room and also keeping her lead on and making her sit at my side but these things just seem to build up her excitement even more and once she's free she goes even more loopy than she was in the first place.
Sit stays and down stays don't work either - her excitement levels mean she can't keep still for a nanosecond.
She used to race upto any kids in the park and jump all over them too but thankfully she's getting better with regards to that - she still spots them a mile off and runs up but tends to run around them, wagging her tail rather than molest them. I was hoping this might mean her manners indoors might imrove too, but she's showing no signs of it.
Soooo, has anyone got any suggestions for how I can deal with this ? We are spending Christmas/New Year with relatives that are used to all this but there are also going to be a few other people there who I'm told aren't really dog people - with Misty doing her crazy routine I doubt they'll be converted either.