Dog behaviour problem - any ideas?

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Hi
2yo Pomeranian. Docile - when meets new person will lie at feet waiting to be stroked. Never bitten or been aggressive to people dogs. A jack Russell went for her once and she just stood there looking confused.
However on a walk the first dog she sees she goes berserk! She jumps up and down on her lead pulling to get to other dog and barking. Understandably other owners put off by this seemingly nasty dog but if she gets by them she just stands a couple of feet away looking waiting to greet/sniff. It doesn't happen after she's met just the first dog. At weekend at country fair she went berserk trying to get to first dog - jumping pulling barking - but in show ground there were hundreds of dogs and just had a quick sniff and carried on walking or just took no notice at all
Any ideas?
It feels awful. I think it's just overexcitement seeing first dog?
Should I just walk off the other way to show her its unacceptable? Tug lead and sound disapproving? These not successful thus far

Sorry this posted twice - I thought the other thread locked and wouldn't post :-/

What about teaching her the 'watch me' command? Try to get her to focus more on you instead?

I taught mine this command as she is similar with cats - she makes this awful loud screeching noise, leaps around on her lead and lunges. It's just awful. It's excitement, but it sounds like I'm beating her! The watch-me command has been a god send.

To teach her that then I just practice rewarding her for concentrating on me when engaged in other activities?

Found it on Victoria Stilwell 😊 thank you

I think that's where I got the training from too :-)

I started by holding a treat next to my eye, once she was focused on me I said 'watch me', then rewarded her with a treat from my other hand. Eventually I didn't need the year next to my eye, I just use the same hand signal next to my eye and 'watch me' command.

I'll also often cross to the other side of the road, further away from the cat, so it's a bit less tempting for her, but she's still having to deal with the situation - but hopefully a bit calmer!

Good luck

*Treat, not year

Thank you!
She just did it again while out - in shop and she saw dog walk past doorway and barked growled ( but I was holding her inside shop) - first dog she'd seen - then few mins later next dog she just looked and moved on 🙄

I would add that it's worth making the watch me more complicated, but a good treat or toy in view, and ask her to watch you then. You'll be starting to proof her against distractions. You must reward her with something better than is in sight.

When you're out, please don't try 'watch me' with the first dog you see. Practise it with dogs she's calm with first. Really don't want to set her up to fail because it could lead to diluting the command.

If you need an excellent, high-value, treat whilst out, warmed sardines can work well.

Thank you I'll give it a determined go
Any thoughts as to why she does this?

Hi not totally clear on why you think that's weird behaviour as you have a young dog with an excitable and intelligent mentality and normal for her to get excited to see other dogs but clearly she's aware at the same time of boundaries and dangers so she checks it out for a bit. As your walk and for her exposure to more dogs progresses she calms. It's really normal and never punish or apologise for that behaviour as dogs have their eyes on you as you are their leader (hopefully). Some dog owners can be so arrogant and I've struggled immensely with my Swiss shepherd as she is large and barks when fearful of a dog and when she plays she can be very rough and scares the other dogs and owners frequently.
Naturally it annoys me but I surrpress my anxiety and try my command of shh wich is just saying shhht in a calming voice which generally falls on deaf ears so I remove her from excitement and move on. It so helps that my other dog is a chihuahua and funny enough when they see they are together it helps ( he's so chill)
Dogs watch us and you need to expose them every day to sosalisation but be a firm and kind leader and and reward frequently and ignore and or remove from other

positively.com/contributors/my-dog-wants-to-greet-everyone-5-ways-to-reduce-frustration-on-walks/. This has useful information on why and how to change the behaviour.

tysm @maricia I think I have considered her an adult and really she is young. It's just that this is new to me from her
@Reb33 I will do link 😄