How can I get my dog to calm down around other dogs?

Well for one thing you are giving him a lot of excuse for his behavior. You are going to have to be the alpha dog and let him know being aggressive is not acceptable. (I don't mean beating him or anything. Your feeling actually is very obvious to your dog. If you are scare, they can sense it.) If you allow the behavior, it will continue. You have 2 choices, stay away from all larger dog...you will have a hard time doing that, he's a small dog. Or you can take him to a trainer and have them help you slowly socialize him to get better. You want to change his mind about bigger dog by slowly expose him to a good calm bigger dog until he no longer growl or bark. * He growls and barks but hasn't bite yet doesn't mean he won't if he get a chance.

Trust me if I see a 30lb dog coming at me barking and growling at my girls, I am going to watch to see if it will go away, if not the next step is my pepperspray then my foot. I am not going to let my dog get hurt because of a out of control smaller dog. You wouldn't have to worry about my dog, it's the owner you have to worry about. After all my dogs are my baby just like your dog is your baby. We all try to protect our own. So be careful, train him. He will get better. :-)

My experience comes from having two chihuahuas and a mini snauzer, three small dogs..also a lab and a german shepherd mix, both large dogs. With all these dogs..I have to keep control or I have a pack of unruly dogs. With my little ones...I have a medium size cage that they go in on their own...sometimes I shut the door to keep the big dogs off them. If they bark and carry on I may pop the front of the cage with the newspaper a few times telling them sternly to hush. This works for me. The way I keep my pets in line and behaving is with a newspaper. It doesnt hurt them...but it makes alot of noise and they run for cover when i just pull it out. You will be surprised at the result you will get with a newspaper.

All dogs play rough. However if his play is borderline aggressive or if he is actually HURTING the other dogs due to his exuberance, then i would stop bringing him to the park immediately. Learn here https://tr.im/BIncI

It's your job as his owner to keep him under control, and if you can't so that then you shouldn't be bringing him someplace where he could get into trouble.

How often does he get walked? As a high energy breed he should be walked twice a day for as long as he can stand it. Jogging is even better. You can't count on the park to be your only way of exercising him because he obviously is not ready for it (based on the behavior you describe.)

So start walking him every morning and evening. Enroll in an obedience class with a qualified instructor (i would find a private training facility as opposed to one at Petsmart - as good as some of those trainers can be, they're mainly for easy-to-train dogs and don't specialize in herding breeds OR dogs that may have aggression issues) and he/she will show you how to teach your dog how to come.

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go to a park and when ur dog see a big dog distract him with a treat and say "watch me" and keep distracting him till the big dog passes by. or when ur dog starts to bark turn the opposite direction from the big dog is coming from and just walk with ur dog.

When you bring your dog to the park, and there is other dogs there, when your dogs starts barking, say NO! firmly and loudly.

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