[Lucyana1129]

I am so jealous of the owners that can go for a walk with their dog and pass another dog w/o chaos happening. Bentley and I walk past a dog and all heck breaks loose. Meanwhile the dog we pass is usually not phased at all or is looking at us like we're crazy. Not to mention the owner thinks I'm the worst owner ever. We have been working on this in our training and passed our first class only bc there were no distractions. In this more advanced class there will be more distractions including dogs. I'm at a loss as to what to do. The trainer has said when he starts barking and freaking out to simply turn and walk the other direction until he calms down then turn and try again. Well, I'm sure that works for bigger dogs but when I turn and try to walk away Bentley is light enough to just walk backwards and bark the whole way. He is so good with the rest of his training but this is killing us. I can't take a walk with him w/o constantly being worried that we will pass another dog. I have another dog that does the same thing. He's much older and I'm sure that's where Bentley learned this horrible habit. To be honest I'm very embarassed. I see owners walking a calm dog and I'm so so jealous. How do they do that? Are they just lucky? Uggghhhh.....! SO jealous!