I agree that marker training is a great way to go, it is such a joy to train dogs that way.

We are working with our 4 yr old hound on his over excitement when comes over, he is 65 lbs and jumping on people is not only rude it could be dangerous.

We still put him away when they first come in the house, I don't use a crate for him so he goes in the hallway or our bedroom with the door open but a baby gate up, that way he can see and smell them but can't tackle them with love.

Once he is over the fact that they are here I let him out on a leash, let him sniff them and say hi but then he has to lay at my feet.
This means I can't sit right next to my guests or he will try to climb onto their laps, but that is ok.

Some might say that is like punishment,
but I call it controlling his options so that I don't have to correct my very very soft dog.

We have been working on his place command, but he is just not the quickest learner and his joy and excitment over new people coming in the door overides his need to please me or my husband.

Sending the little guy to the crate when he acts obnoxious isn't done as punishment.

Ideally, we condition our dogs to view the crate as a calm, mellow place. When they get wound up, we send them to their crate to calm down, reflect and come back out after they've regrouped.

Some dogs, just like some kids, get horribly overstimulated and loose their heads when new folks show up at the house. It's almost as though they can't help themselves.
For dogs (and kids) like this, it's best to help them remove themselves from the situation so that they can decompress a little.

Once the little guy is calm, you can bring him back out and expect better behavior, because you know he is calm enough to obey commands.

Using marker training, you can also train better behaviors, and help him understand quicker what it is that you want from him.
He can learn that four-on-the-floor is what gets him tons of attention and treats from guests, and jumping/biting just gets him sent back to the crate for yet another time-out.

I see that crating quincey would be a whole lot simpler than any other way. Are teaching several ways to stop unwanted behavior going to confuse him?

What several ways are you planning on using? Could you set out your training plan for us?

Consistency is the key, IMO, but you can incorporate various things while being consistent. It's hard to say (for me at least) without knowing exactly what you mean by 'several ways'.

hi, what im trying to keep quincey from barking like crazy, I will allow 3 barks then if he continues to bark then ill stand in from him and say go back and walk towards him. Dont know yet what ill do to teach him not to jump and bite. I decided ill use the prong just for teaching him not to chase the cats, and NOT for correcting bad behavior.

Hi, what I have quincey do before I feed him, I tell quincey to sit on the other side of the room and say sit, then put his food into his bowl. Then say ok, so he then knows he can run to go eat his food. He always obeys. But am having a hard time getting him to laydown when I ask him to without a treat in my hand. Maybe I need to always have a treat in my hand everytime I ask him to so that he then knows he should obey, and that I mean business. Maybe I have not practiced this comand enough.

My mom had a young male Shih Tzu with jumping, grabbing, peeing on humans who came to visit. He is very excitable. She started with the "leave it" and "off" commands, he already had sit, down, heel commands pretty well. Once he had the "leave it" and "off" commands down pretty good, she started the hard work of training the humans. Rules were, ignore Odie the dog until he is calm, NO MATTER WHAT, and that was hard for the humans. Odie was tied to the patio door where he could see humans but not interact. Once he was calm and humans settled, mom brought him over on lead to say hi (using "leave it" or "off" when needed until he understood no "jumpies"). If he reverted to excited and previous bad behavior, back to the patio door with mom being neutral. If he managed to remain calm (and humans remained calm) he was allowed to lie down in the vicinity. All of this was done with neutrality on mom's part and it took longer for the humans to learn than Odie. He is now a perfect gentleman when humans come over with the humans reverting to excited behavior more than Odie. It did take lots of work on mom's part and it took time, but it was do-able. Good luck

Hi, today when I came home after being out for 3 hours, Quincey jumped up and tried to grab ahold of my jacket. I did not know what to do. I tried to ignore him, I tried to touch him with my leg, (not kick). I tried to turn around and show my back. He was quite a bit excited. Do you think that if I waited outside till he were less excited to come in, would that have helped? I want to have a consistant way of teaching him that it is not ok to jump on people, I just dont know yet how. Will he eventually know not to jump when told him enough, that he isnt supposed to? It sounds so easy.

Is he crated when you aren't at home?

If not, an easy way to teach him he needs to be calm when you (and others) come in is to crate him when you go out. When you come home, wait until he's calm and in control before letting him out of the crate.

You can still do something fun and great when you get home with him, he just has to give you calm, polite behaviour first.

Hope that helps!

Thats what I normally do. I crate him when im not home. I dont let him out of the crate until he is calm like you say. My boyfriend usually comes over for lunch, just today he was over before I got back. He let him out of the crate so quincey didnt have to wait till I got home. Maybe I should have rung the door bell so then quincey could be crated till I come in and he is calm, to be let back out of crate.