Don't punish your dog for barking or you will undo all of your work so far. Add more distance and repeat the previous step. If your dog barks and lunges at another dog, your training went too far too fast. When he looks up at you for more, go closer, and repeat. This will teach him to associate the presence of other dogs with good things. Wait until your dog notices them, and immediately get his attention and reward him. Start walking at a distance from any dogs.You are teaching him to look at you comfortably regardless of his environment. Start in a low-distraction environment (like your living room) and gradually move to busier areas, only continuing when you can get his attention no matter what. Say his name and reward him for looking at you. Work on getting your dog's attention before you go out.When you correct your highly aroused dog it can also cause him to redirect his aggression onto you. Correcting him for growling or barking at another dog can also punish the warning out of him and cause him to go from seeing a dog to biting with no warning (barking, growling) in between. Punishment (yelling, jerking the leash, grabbing the dog, saying "no") increases your dog's anxiety level and will make him try even harder to keep other dogs away. He is feeling stressed, can't escape because of the leash, and is then punished. First, your dog learns that other dogs (and potentially other people) make bad things happen. Forcing your dog to sit or lie down in the approaching dog’s path can be very dangerous for several reasons. Many people correct their dog for any perceived display of aggression. When an adult dog inappropriately greets another dog, the other dog will react, and the owner of the first is likely to criticize the other for his dog’s aggression, unaware that his own dog was the aggressor. If a puppy never experiences these corrections, he may carry his inappropriate greetings right into adulthood. The discipline is non-violent and usually takes the form of barks and growls. Adult dogs, while patient with puppy antics, will discipline the pup once he reaches five or six months old. Letting your dog charge up to another dog, get in his face, bump him, and jump on him is extremely rude behavior among dogs, and is sometimes the result of insufficient dog-dog socialization past the young puppy stage. If this doesn’t happen, owners might assume the dogs are fine because neither is barking or growling, but don't recognize signs of stress like pacing, panting, scratching, flattened ears, and low tails. What happens is an explosion of barking as both dogs go from flight to fight. Owners often have their dogs on tight leashes in case anything happens, but tight leashes communicate tension to the dogs and further increase their stress. Both dogs are trapped on leash and unable to increase the distance between each other. If the owners let their dogs say hi, the problems can increase. Most dogs don’t want to fight, so they display a number of behaviors designed to prevent this: barking, lunging, growling, anything to make the threat go away. When dogs meet on leash, they are typically forced to approach head-on and can't turn their bodies. They don’t approach head-on and make hard eye contact unless a fight is about to start. When off-leash and in their own environment, dogs naturally greet from the side. Leash-reactive behavior has many components that must be considered. If your dog lunges, pulls toward or barks at other dogs on walks, you know how stressful and embarrassing it can be.
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