[yorkietalkjilly]

I forgot to add that the morning of the training, you want to set him up for success to focus on that chicken. After that light dinner the night before & your busy fixing the warm, boiled chicken with the scent drifting throughout the house, your hungry little dog will be FOCUSED on and ALERTED to that chicken cooking. He'll be constantly looking to you and asking you for it. He'll be expecting to get some. When it's done cooking, take it out, show it to him just above his nose and allow him to look at it up close, smell it, drool over it and develop a mad passion for it but never get a taste of it. It will drive him mad wanting it and you WANT that drive in him fully developed before your walk outside. Drain it, cool it some on the cabinet, saying over and over, "Mmmm, smell that chicken! You can get that soon, boy!" You are building up his focus and desire for the thing that is going to take the place of the passing dog's in his brain when outside on the leash.

Let him see you put the chicken in your treat pouch, tell him "You will get a bite soon!", hook it on your belt and leash him and walk him outside very slowly, you preceding him out of the front door always. Get him to stay focused on your hand on the treat pouch when you get outside by touching it and saying, "Mmm, want to get some chicken? Learn to focus on the chicken!" or whatever you want to say to keep him thinking about that chicken you have. Keeping him thinking about and focusing solely on that chicken is a huge part of the process at this point.

Now, take his leash up, place him beside your left leg and begin your walk and once you see another dog approaching, cross the street with him, take out the chicken(Finally!) from the pouch and place it in front of his nose and begin your very fast circle walk with that chicken taunting him in front of his nose. If you've prepared him by keying him onto that chicken earlier that morning, he'll now be very excited and VERY determined to get that chicken!!! He'll do anything to get his breakfast and learn to ignore everything else in the process. I'd just try it once or twice a day and then bring him back inside to eat his normal breakfast before he has a chance to encounter more dogs when he's not so crazy to get that chicken.

After a few days, you no longer need to withhold his breakfast the morning of the training as he'll have learned how good the chicken is, remember how badly he wanted it when he was soooo hungry and work to get it just as hard now that he knows the drill.