If you could address just one dog behavior problem, what would it be?

Biggest dog training problem I have is untrained humans. I'm not perfect at training, but I'm educated, from Karen's work, Patricia McConnell, Jean Donaldson, etc. First dog I trained was a Beagle in a 4H class when I was 6 or 7, early 1960s. I'm about on dog 15 or 16 now. 

Problems I have are with family members and guests who ignore what I ask them to do, i.e. don't pet/reward dog when she's being insane(dog isn't actually insane, but high drive/energy herding/guardian breed, hyper behaviors described as insane)

Teenage boy with same dog, ignores me when I ask him to let me know when friends are coming, so if I'm lying down resting, they won't show up in the yard, and reward hyper behavior before I can get shoes on & downstairs to enforce appropriate greeting behavior. Same teenager rewarded dog with petting for barking at him, she started barking at us when arriving home, attempting to herd after I'd trained her out of it, etc.

People who come in my home, who ignore me, when I try to give dog cues to behave, sit, leave it, etc. Insist on telling me I'm wrong, put hands on excited dog, try to physically restrain said dog in excited state, while ignoring me. None of whom have ever done the study I have, or have had as many successfully trained dogs as I . By successful, I don't mean obedience champions, but dogs who listen when I say No!, who stay off furniture, come when called, don't mess in the house, lie down and wait calmly. Just general politeness. Who leave the cats alone.

Don't consider chewing, swiping food left in wrong places to be major behavioral problems. They are just being dogs, it is natural to them. Solution is to secure food, provide lots of alternative objects to chew on, teach leave it, and give them lots of challenging activities to tire them, so when I'm done, they lie down quietly.

Teenager created problems when he was drinking/smoking pot, had behavioral problems. Stomped around angry, frightened dogs, they thought they had to protect me from him, tried to keep them separate from him, to intervene, to tell him how his behavior affected them. He didn't like the hyper dog when she was young, she jumped. Could effectively be called the rocket propelled dog. When training, and extinguishing that behavior, so she stopped doing it with me, he ignored everything I told him about how he could communicate to her what behavior he wanted instead of jumping and barking. Continued to do things that inadvertantly rewarded wrong behavior.

Straightened up, in college now, but has made no effort to repair relationship with dog, persists in doing stupid stuff like striding through narrow hallways quickly, walking toward dog expecting her to read mind and move, she perceives it as threatening, fear biting behavior. Wants to herd him, correct his behavior.

I do management, keep them separated by doors, or have her tethered to me. Irritating, inconvenient. Don't want her to have a reputation as a biter, don't want her to transfer behavior to other young men/adolescents. Behavior only triggered in the home, only triggered by him, and occasionally kid who cuts grass, so she stays leashed when he comes. Or shut in house.

She's a dream to train, highly food motivated. Resource aggressive, used to take other dog's food, not allow her to eat. Will wait and watch patiently now, reward is allowing her to lick the bowl. Responds great to training, loves it. 

About to have local behaviorist help me with this. Break from problems, he's back to school. Made some headway last Christmas break.Minor changes to kid's behavior, a couple well timed corrections on my part, because I kept her near me. Some positive interactions to build more positive associations.

He will not take the time to work on more positive associations, i.e. 5 minute training sessions in which he gives her food to reward sits/down/stay/not barking.

So, continue to train door manners with pizza deliver boys, with a dog savy friend who helps me with the house(who mostly listens) She thinks the barking/vocalization is cute, but completely ignores dog calmly, when she tries to herd her, moveing slowly and calmly.

Step-mother thinks she understands dogs, tries to force her to hold still, links one finger through coller. This on a 55 pound, really strong, high energy dog who could turn into a whirling dervish! What happens to finger then? Thankful the dog listens at least some with people talking over top of me correcting her. Keep treats in pocket. This is someone who has had 2 dogs in her entire life, I'd trained more dogs when I was 17 and first met her than she's had in her entire life. Dog she had as an adult was a mostly untrained, rude, hyper, epileptic toy poodle who picked fights with larger dogs, who she allowed to place his paw on her plate to pull it down for him to eat off of, thus teaching him that other's may like that behavior, too. Not.

Sister in law, who had substance abuse, who's children I raised with their behavior problems, has never had a dog of her own in her entire adult life, literally trained her kids to have violent temper tantrums when they didn't get their way(used to watch it happen before I had custody) (her son the one who has had the problems with the dog)

Interupts me and man handles dog to try to get her to settle. In discussing cues to get behavior, tell her that non-verbal, physical cues, gestures work better with dogs, because that's how they communicate. In superior tone, says they, meaning her family, used voice comands with family GSD.

I can manage. I'm good at management, keeping dogs away from these people, she's getting better with age. I practice a game in which we rough-house, getting her really hyper excited, then have a stop cue, in which she has to stop on a dime and sit. Reward is more rough-housing. It allows me better control when people do things that get her really excited so it's hard for her to listen. It's helped a lot. 

Other inlaws, husband's family work better with dogs. Not a perfect trainer, dogs aren't perfect. But they listen to me, are usually the best trained dogs I see when I take them to dog friendly places. Not saying much. But reading Lads Before The Wind 35 years ago one of the best things that has happened to me & my dogs. And one horse. 

Interacted with a young hyper pit mix in Petsmart other day. Owner let his dog come right up on the girls while I was busy loading a case of cat food, let puppy be rude, Karli snapped at him, he was too stupid to move his puppy back until I asked him to.

Got them set up, calmed down, down/stays, then let them meet. He'd had a class at a competing store with a trainer that didn't use positive methods. Worked puppy with sit, down, had dried duck in pocket. Puppy started picking it up pretty well, girls mostly maintained stay, broke a couple times, but went back quickly. A good session for them and the puppy. He used a flexi-lead. I suggested for training he'd have better control with a regular leash. Gave suggestions to help with leash pulling. Suggested a couple trainers to him.

I use the flexi lead places where it would normally be safe to let them run, like beach or park, but it's against the rules to do so, once they are trained..

Can't talk about other people. Cat just climbed my shoulder, asking for food, I gave it. Will see that behavior again, and again. They are better at training us than we are them.

Sorry for the long winded rant, appreciate everything you do for dogs and owners.

Recall!!!