Hi all

Thanks for all your replies.

I have had him since November & live in Oxfordshire. When I first got him his tolerence distance of another dog was non exsistent he would start barking & lungeing whether the dog was over the other end of a park or a dot on the horizon. He is definately very very slowly improving but it is very hard to keep the distance he needs whilst in a town. I have taught him the watch me & at home or in situations where there are no other dogs he will watch me for ages but if there is another dog even in sight he refuses to.

I don't really know what to do with him, if I always walk him out in the country away from other dogs we don't have a problem but it is avoiding it rather than confronting it, if we walk him around where we live there are so many dogs every where it blows his brain.

The behaviourist said that he was frustrated & wanted to get to the other dog rather than being scared or aggressive, but then he was taking the frustration out on the other dogs when he got to them. Although he is a little nervy in some situations & is a little scared of men at first.

There are a few owners in the park that have tried to help by letting him play with their dogs whilst muzzled but he always trys to dominate them (Hilarious the other day when he was trying to get his chin over a Great dane's back & wasn't tall enough ! I know I shouldn't laugh but it was a very comical sight)