I did kind of a brazen thing once, but it worked. My neighbors have a big dog, 120 lbs., her name is Happy and she's all that her name implies. I love my neighbors, and I love dogs, but Happy would jump up on me and quite frankly, she was just too darn big and my neighbors had a devil of a time controlling her so.............one day I brought my dog's training tool, it's called Pet Agree, emits a sound only a dog can hear, you press it, say your command, they get it fairly quickly, etc. I used it twice on Happy, after that, when I went to visit the neighbors and all 120 lbs. of her would bound merrily in my direction, all I had to say was NO and she stopped, sat, and I was able to give her a good dose of love and attention. My neighbors did not take offense either.