How does your dog react to strangers coming into your home?

Both M&M bark excitedly and run to the door and then tend to jump on visitors.  For that reason they are put in a sit stay and are required to maintain decorum - hah!

Funny UPS story - in our old city Monroe used to jump into the UPS guys truck "What can brown do for you?"  The driver would give him a treat and play with him a bit, then kick him out of the truck.  I guess Monroe figured that he already had the uniform on... 

VanMorrison

Funny UPS story - in our old city Monroe used to jump into the UPS guys truck "What can brown do for you?"  The driver would give him a treat and play with him a bit, then kick him out of the truck.  I guess Monroe figured that he already had the uniform on... 

If Bugsy sees or hears someone come up the drive he goes to either the front door or a window at the back in which he can see part of the drive.  He never barks - ever - but he is on high alert.  We don't get a lot of strangers that come into our home so I can't really say what specifically he does.  He used to be ridiculously hyper when someone came to the door and is better but still is if it is someone he loves   They get greeted with his two rubber bones.

Honor is suspicious and will bark until the person is invited in, and then she's their best friend.  Nike on the other hand is still afraid of people, so he usually watches from afar.

My dog's WAY too friendly. 

As soon as their car stops she's looking in the car window.  When they open the car door she leaps in, right across the lap of the first person out.  It's hard to get her out of the car too.  She jumps back and forth from the front to the back seat when you try to grab her.  Once out of the car she's leaping up on everyone as they walk to the house.  I have to run out and grab her as soon as I hear a car pull up to stop any of this from happening.

She's getting better with me when I come home, but around other people she's just a maniac. I've got a lot of work to do with her.

 Memory doesn't like strangers. At all. Even before a person she has never met knocks the door, or rings the doorbell, she will begin to growl. As the person comes nearer, she'll growl louder and if he/she walks to close, she will snarl and show her teeth. It usually takes two or three sharp "No!"s before she stops, but even then she'll stare up at the person and it almost looks like she's glaring. She will always keep her distance and back away, or hide behind me . Although if he/she comes TOO close without being introduced, she will snap. I have had that happen once, and luckily, no one was hurt, though the person was scared badly. I normally have to greet the person first and ask Memory to come over and take a sniff, and I'll always have him/her pet Memory on the side, but never on the head. I'm trying to knock the hostility/fear towards strangers out of her through socialization, but it's tough

crysania

Dahlia usually rushes over to the door (by "rushes" I mean she moves fast than her typical slow walk) and then stands there with her tail wagging.  She doesn't jump on anyone and doesn't get overly excited (I'm not sure she EVER gets overly excited) and she doesn't bark.  I swear the dog would let burglars in and show them where the expensive stuff in the house was, especially if they just gave her a pat on the head.

Max is exactly the same way, except he can rush. No barking, just standing nose to door, tail wagging.  He just assumes that whoever is out there has come to see him.  Same thing with people that have to come into the yard.  The Terminix man brings him treats, the pool man plays with the hose with him.  The only group he's not too fond of is the yard service and that's about the leaf blower, not the people themselves.

Joyce

I socialized Heidi a great deal when she was a puppy, and I think that's why she is great with people.  She immediately comes up to meet and greet, then runs off to fetch her ball (aka appendage) to solicit play. 

Buddy and Bruder are both sweethearts, and greet people happily and with a smile.  Especially if they have cookies. 

The "Beware of Dog" sign at the front of our property is useless.  LOL  But, If there is someone with ill intent, the sign is hopefully a deterrant.

It depends if Lily heard the vehicle pull up or the car door shut. If she hears it then she paces between the livingroom window and the kitchen window until they come in. If she dosn't hear the vehicle then she barks when they open/knock on the door. The person dosn't even get to step inside before she is all over them with kisses and jumps (we've been working on this).

He barks for a while but he is overly happy that somebody came.

And if that somebody has any food or treats, he immediately becomes his best friend... 

That's one of Penny's biggest draw backs. She's an extremely antisocial and protective dog. Usually we just put her up in a room when someone comes and you can still clearly her barking up a storm. The only people she likes are usually petite women or teenagers/older kids.

Daisy hasn't really had many strangers come over yet with her here. Some strangers did come in yesterday and she didn't really care whatsoever or even bark. However, I'm curious to see how she'll react in a couple months once she's more seattled in herself.  

My girls just LOVE meeting new people.  Zipper side-saddles up to them, tucks one should slightly down and just wiggles her entire boddy for pets and greetings.  Button, my older one, wants to be their best buddy & smother them with rattie-size tiny kisses.  They're quite good around strangers, actually.  I socialized them young with Trick-or-Treaters.  So they like to see anybody walking up the sidewalkd to the front door, even the mailman!  (I had him pet them often when they were pups)

Wags tail furiously, rushes to greet them, sniffs, and then goes to one of his beds to chill.

We just adopted a 6 month old yellow lab pup who barks like crazy, wiggles his butt, and won't leave our son's (16 months old) side.  We've had him for 5 days and he's already protective of our boy which is a great thing :)

If he bothers to wake up at all he'll usually just look on from his bed. If he is interested enough to get up, he walks over for some sniffs and then it's back to bed.

He's a very very easy going dog!

A pack of big dogs sounds intimidating, but it does get pretty embarrassing when Grey starts howling and the others start happy-barking when anyone arrives.