DOG GOES BALLISTIC WHEN JOGGING WITH OWNER
Author: Adam G. Katz
Dear Adam: My dog, Chance, we think is a Golden retriever mix, but he's mostly white with gold patches. Also he's about 2/3 the size of a Golden Retriever.
He's 18 months old and has been loose-leash trained pretty well as long as you don't let him get distracted.
The thing I don't know how to handle is that some dogs that we meet when we're out jogging or walking, he goes ballistic.
We have used a choke chain to train him, and it seemed to work well. But there is that occasional dog that we meet will get him so riled that he pulls, then spins, then pulls backwards, then jumps up and down, then spins again - all to get loose to go attack the other dog.
What are my options?
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