[yorkietalkjilly]

I agree with the warning about collars. If your dog pulls very hard and has a predisposition toward this problem, it could injure the trachea and perhaps damage it even with a normal trachea, as Yorkie trachs are fragile. Read what you can on collapsing trachea on YT and Google and you will see what could happen.

It sounds like your dog is probably reacting the only way he knows when encoutering another dog if his life so far has been hectic and undisciplined with no training. I would keep matter of factly turning and walking the other way when he does his wild barking frenzy and if you have ever watched video of an experienced trainer doing this with a dog, it can take over 30 - 45 minutes to stop it and that's with a professional trainer. To me, this is brutal to work on a dog that long at one session, preferring shorter walking sessions of greater frequency. And remaining unemotional even when he doesn't seem to be responding will help him continue to get your message that barking & going crazy will not get him what he wants, it gets him turned the other way and walked away from exactly what he wants - interaction with another dog! This habit of a dog to bark and go crazy on a walk is a hard nut to crack at first but once the dog gets the idea from repeated training sessions, it is magic. Not that they don't "re-offend" - they do, but patient continued reverse-walk training and praising & slipping him a lovely treat for walking beside you quietly will help reinforce that preferred behavior.

To further help him learn to control himself and his impulses, start him on an obedience training program that stresses positive reinforcement and teaches him to listen to you, while learning to control his impulses in exchange for the lovely "paychecks" of a nice treat, praise and big smiles from mom. It will help him to settle, give him some work to focus on and help you two bond. Besides, seeing them learn is fun and rewarding and it can save a dog's life one day to have learned to do what its owner says. After very short but frequent obedience training sessions, always reward him with a nice, fun play session and let him outside to work out and pee/potty away any stress or anxiety from trying to learn to restrain himself. It's a nice further reward, too, getting to get outside & run about.

I agree with kjc abouttrying to get a friend to walk their dog with you. And when he walks with the dog nicely, slip him a little treat as you can when the other dog is not looking! Exposure to other dogs and repeptition of his experiences around them will help to take a lot of the energy out of the event if it happens a lot. It will become fun but not something to go into wild hyper mode over.