I have a friend who is a nightmare when he comes to visit, as soon as the young dog wanders over to say hello my friend starts to flap his arms and squeal "No Vic, No, nononono!" in a really high pitched voice. Poor Vic then thinks friend wants to play and pesters him all the more (minus jumping up at last!), why won't my friend listen when I tell him he should stop waving his arms and squealing?
The funniest thing is my friend then looks at me in disgust and says "If I had a dog it would be perfect!" (He's a cat man!)

Dont invite him around your house??
Keep the dog in another room/crate?

I would keep the friend in a cage

to be honest if he keeps doing this i'd lose my temper a bit and tell him straight... but then i have a dog with some temprement issues and i emphasise REPEATEDLY to any of my friends in advance of their coming how to behave. I put enormous effort into making my dogs issues not an issue (and he's getting far far better :)) and if one of my friends began acting so stupidly they'd get a toungue lashing.

thankfully i am blessed with sensible friends who do as they are told when it comes to the big boy, i have one who he particularly likes now and he insists on sitting with when he comes round :) i suspect becuase he is a very chilled out character (that and he bribed him with haggis once lol)

I'll tell you what worked for me :)

I had the same problem with my dad, who visits most days. He would come in and as soon as Buster would go towards him he would start flapping & paniking. After probably months of me telling him to keep still & calm and DONT TOUCH/TALK TO THE DOG UNLESS HE's SAT DOWN, it didn't sink in :(
One day I had enough, rather than loose my temper with my dad I did an OTT impersination of him, flapping, paniking and generally acting like an child! As soon as I started this, Buster started to get all excited and jump up at me. My dad was shocked, he said " your dog never acts like that with you, he's alaways as good as gold......" then the penny dropped & my dad felt a bit silly - Buster is as good as gold with me because I am calm, not acting like a plaything - worked a treat :-D
Oh, by the way, my dad is used to dogs, my sister lives with him with her boxer and we had dogs when I was growing up!! It's not just non-doggy people that are hard to 'train'.

I'm soo going to try that next time he comes around! He may just think I'm mad...

> I'm soo going to try that next time he comes around! He may just think I'm mad...

LOL, I hope it works for you too :)

Once my dad realised that acting calm  actually helped the situation, I could concentrate on training Buster to greet him better, Bust still got excited to see my dad, but once the 'flapping' stopped, his excitement was at a much more controlable level.
Before, if my dad was visiting, I couldn't leave Buster in the same room as him (ie, to nip to the loo) or he'd jump on my dad as soon as I left Now my dad is great with him, even if Buster gets a bit excited, my dad will stay calm, go to the 'treat cupboard' and have Buster sitting nicely waiting for a treat :)

> Dont invite him around your house??
> Keep the dog in another room/crate?

or better still - put Vic in the crate?

Friends had a young Y lab and had parents visiting for w/end various times. Ps kept feeding dog bits from table and generally being pain-in **** with him so I suggested every time Ps made dog 'misbehave' for Sue to pop him in crate (which he wasn't bothered about) and then tell Ps it was their fault he had to be shut in and lay a mega guilt trip on them. Took about 3-4 goes and Parents behaviour improved to acceptable level :-)
Chris

Mother in law...get down get down GOOD BOY..........how many times must I tell her.
Don't say good boy after you told him to get down he believes this is good thing to do . He's just fine when you walk in and ignore (with a calm voice) she will squawk at him