Reactive dog that won’t listen, any advice?
So I have been walking a lovely girl for about 6 months now. She’s the sweetest, loves pets more than anything and is totally fine around everyone, until she sees a dog. After that, she’s barking at everyone, jumping, pulling, scaring some people, it’s almost impossible to walk her after that. I have a reactive dog myself and have walked others. Most of the time I can distract, deter, and calm them down. But I can’t find something that works with her. She is not food or toy driven, at all. She only really eats one kind of treat and on walks she isn’t even interested in those, so there’s no distracting. For the most part we can deter, but it’s been so nice out lately(aside from all the rain) more dogs are out when we are walking, so it’s become more of an issue. After she sees a dog, I cannot calm her down. I try to sit her down, take a beat, offer treats & pets, nothing. Even if she eventually calms down, once we start walking she’s instantly agitated again. I’ve talked to her mom about it and she works with her. She takes treats and listens better from her mom, but she won’t from me, which I get, my pup is like that as well. However, that means the tricks her mom uses, don’t work for me. I want to be able to help her, especially bc lately there’s been times she’s become more reactive after an incident. Like we run into a dog on our walk, the next day we get to the same spot and she starts barking and pulling. She really is the sweetest girl, she just gets scared. If anyone has any advice, please!!