This has started to be a real problem. My Dog is 14 months old now and is a big boy (Northern inuit). He's a wonderful, friendly dog, and is terrific off the lead... Until another dog steps into his vision. It's as if an alarm goes off and that's it, he's gone, dust in his wake, straight over to the other dog.

His behaviour towards other dogs, when in his younger puphood was pure play, now he exhibits dominant behaviour, such as resting his head on top of the dogs shoulder, tail up over his back (however inuits often carry their tail in this manner) and humping. Dogs who will have none of this behaviour effectively tell him to 'F' off, in their own dogggy way, only for him to leap out of range and then spring back and reattempt this behaviour. Catching him is a nightmare as he proceeds to play a catch me if you can game when i attempt to step in and save the riled dogs, where he leaps both out of mine and the other dogs range, (brilliant fun i assume), so usually i ignore it and walk off, to which he will eventually come belting after me for fear of being left behind.

interestingly with older dogs or dogs who are simply not interested in the slightest and ignore him he will come away almost instantly, as if he can sense the energy they give off and realise their is no fun to be had.

If he's on the lead and i try to pull him past dogs, (i ignore both dog and owner in hopes he will follow my lead, excuse the pun) he will strain to get at them until we have passed but will then soon forget about them. However if on the lead and a dog comes up to him he will again exhibit this dominant behaviour, but is more likely to growl and exhibit more overbearing aggressive dominance when i attempt to pull him away from the other dog (sideways or backwards folks it makes little difference)

It's a tear your hair out experience as he is NOT a dominant dog at home. He is made to sit and wait for his dinner (once i forgot to tell him he was allowed to eat and i found him sitting waiting almost an hour later staring at his food!)
He is obediant and does not step out of line very often, however when he does he is immediately corrected and he does not question it. So what is this obsession with other dogs? We could be in the middle of a game which he is enjoying immensely and still, off he goes, belting over to harrass some poor canine...

any tips?