Whenever my dog hears the door bell ringing or footsteps towards the front door he is loosing it! Starts crying and running around like crazy trying to get to our visitors. Once the door is opened he runs towards people and is annoying them by standing on their feet, running against them, sometimes he even jumps up at them even though he knows the rules about jumping (he does not jump up on people in any other situations, only with friends and people that ring the bell). He does not do it with me or my partner because he clearly knows that we aren't impressed by it.
He is a 1 year old border collie and we have tried a lot of options to prevent this behaviour like keeping him in the crate until he has calmed down or by ignoring him until he sits down or keeping him in another room until he stops whining. But all with the same result: once the crate is open, the door is open or the person tries to touch him while he was ignored it is all starting over again. He will not leave the visitors site for like 5 to 10 minutes and then stops harassing them.
I can understand that this annoys our friends and visitors and I would not like another persons dog going crazy over me like that either. He is not aggressive in any way, just loves people coming over and is over friendly.
Other than that our 'zookie' is the loveliest creature and I would not trade him for the world!!
Any ideas what else I could try to prevent this misbehaviour?