My pup (10m old female mix) is a social butterfly, she loves playing with dogs and is always at the center of the puppy play session at dog school. We’ve only had her 2.5 months so there was no real training before us, and she was living at her foster with other dogs that she regularly got to play with. However this also translates to her lunging and pulling on walks when she sees another dog because she wants to say hi so badly. Her leash walking is otherwise not too bad, but as soon as a dog comes she throws herself forward. How do you guys deal with this? Is it just part of being a normal teenage dog? Will she just grow out of it at some point since as of now it’s not anxiety or aggression reactivity…just frustrated and excited. So far what we’ve been doing: We don’t let her say hi on walks the majority of the time, only if someone’s dog just comes up to us before we can politely ask for space. We tried having her sit and just observe the dog walking by (often she will just watch if we ask her to sit, however in the long run it has still not helped her be neutral). We try just continue walking but often she’ll pull and lunge. We try leave it, which works sometimes but if she’s too excited it doesn’t work, and I don’t want to reinforce ignoring that command.
Any tips you guys have are helpful!
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