Great example! This is my situation. When people come we have to chain them or put them in their kennel. I think I will have to start with tht method first with myself and just one dog at a time.
Although they stop the jumping after some time when I ignore them, I stupidly didn't observe what then they were doing as a substitute, probably some other nonsense.

Put them in a sit will not work for me yet, although they have good long stays in general but with little distractions.
I will watch the links within the article today. It is without doubt worth spending time on studying this thoroughly.

Chaining just causes frustration and kenneling is strictly management. Neither are a training approach.

I teach my dogs to go to place on a cot. While on their place barking, whining, and other annoying things are not allowed. If my dogs are being inappropriate they can just be sent to their place cot. Since calm behavior has been patterned through duration work on their place the cot also becomes a cue to relax. It helps them to learn to calm themselves. It's hard for them to become overexcited and also meet the criteria of staying on their place without any barking, whining, digging, spinning, etc.

Having a "place" command can be a huge help especially if guests to the house are willing to go along with your wishes and ignoe the dog.

Often times guests will say "The just want to be petted" or "I feel so bad for the dog".

That can destroy all the work done.

Thanks Cathy and Bob. Yes, it is obvious that chaining just causes frustration. Kenneling is management, yes. It has nothing to do with training. But sometimes it is helpful.

It doesn't frustrate them, because I accustomed them slowly and they see their kennel as their comfortable cave. It is also a place for training things which don't need a lot of space. So they learned to love it either as a place for fun or they choose to go in there by themselves, when they want to be undisturbed.

Of course I don't lock them in there for hours, except at night. I'm only worried, it could over time get some negative aspect, when my hubby puts them in there in a very upset and brisk manner as a punishment.

A "place" command they have too, but as I wrote, it is not solid yet. I need the kennel in order to be able to train this with each one alone. I work slowly on more duration and with increasing distractions. I can not train this while guests (2 exceptions) are here because the level of distr. is too high.

This is very true, Bob, some guests can not respect that they should ignore them. We had lots of discussions about it, they simply don't get it, I've given up to explain. And the same who want to pet are enerved too after some time about the frustration barking.

So I prefer to put them in the kennel right from them beginning until I have reached the point to allow them to be with us together with some guests. Difficult when husband and wife are not on the same page what refers to this.