If you have a large dog and a repair technician is coming to your home, do you:

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25. We have 2big dogs (about 100 pounds each)

They are very good dogs but do not greet people nicely at the front door.

If a tradesman is coming to work, they are in our bedroom behind a closed door, they stay until the work is done. They sleep in bed with us( that may upset some but our bed our choice) so it’s the 4 of us in a king size bed. Putting them in our room is not a punishment, it is done to make the person there feel comfortable.

They play rough with each outer and even me if I get on the floor with them. It would be easy to see where a stranger would be nervous.

When we have company it is a different story, the dogs are made to sit at the front door while the company comes in. If the company is nervous they go to our room, if not, the visitors give them a cookie on the way in and dogs continue to roam the house. In some instances the baby gates go up in others, no change

If a professional is coming to work, it is totally different. In a couple of instances, our electrician is a friend, if he his wife and son come to dinner dogs are out, but if he is working, dogs are in. Hi likes the dogs, but no one wants to be up on a ladder when the two 100 pound dogs start playing.