Hello, My lab puppy is now 12 months old and has been to a few training classes that went well, her behaviour overall is excellent, however when walking on the lead she is absolutely obsessed with other dogs beyond control. She started this when a few months old and I was hoping it would have stopped by now, but as she's getting bigger it's now worse and worse. We usually use her harness when walking but also have a normal collar which we used for training. When she's walking she doesn't pull very often, however when she sees another dog she is transfixed on the dog. When they get nearer she will pull as hard as she can to get to the other dog, literally running on the spot while I'm holding her back. I can sometime get her to sit, but she doesn't ever take her eyes off the other dog and after a few seconds starts trying to get to the other dog. Tilly seems to love dogs and she wants to go see everyone, she's never aggressive just wants to say hello to other dogs then move on. We take her for a walk every day, and most days go to the park to play ball which she loves. I think she's just extremely excited but was hoping this would have faded with age! When we go to the park we take her off the lead and she's much better behaved. She will play ball all day long, and when we go for a walk she's good at staying near us when going past another dog and good at recall. She'll often go over to other dogs to say hi, and a few seconds later come running back but on the lead she's just pulling so hard to see other dogs. I've run out of options of how to improve this, and now thinking a half check collar is the only option to stop her pulling when seeing other dogs, but I'd rather not go down that route if there are more positive ways to stop this. Any ideas would be much appreciated!!
A half-check collar isn't going to help, it will only strangle her whilst she attempts to get to the other dog... You need to learn how to use Look At That - there is a whole page on LAT here: https://thelabradorforum.com/threads/look-at-that.22184/
