[yorkietalkjilly]

Going great? You mean he's been acting more calmly around passing dogs as he focuses on the meat and fast-walking? If that's what you meant, that's wonderful.

You poor thing - no wonder your boy went into full frenzy mode when that huge dog came at you both - he's just begun training and this dog came belligerently into his private space, no doubt with his tail and ears pricked, hackles raised and without any attempted normal greeting of butt-sniffing or friendly signals - just barged up to your little guy. Thank goodness nobody was hurt. Sounds as if not too many people in that area obey leash laws or are afraid of their off-lead dogs hurting others or getting hurt, lost, stolen or run-over by being off leash and just taking off on a whim, as I'm pretty certain few of them are trained to stop and stay in place at the owner's command when off lead.

But it sounds as if things were maybe going great, he was learning not to go ballistic at every dog that passed by, until this episode and you two are still on track and can reset and start out again, this time with some behavior-modification skills having been learned by your little guy so he won't be that hard to get back into his training. Just remember to keep the sessions very, very short, frequent, keep him distracted and at a far distance from the other dog until he's accepting of them being nearby and passing as he's learning that not all of them are going to try to hurt him or you and once you no longer need the distracting chicken or circle-walking and then you can allow him to pass by other dogs more closely.