I'm not convinced the dog is aggressive.
It's a brat.

If it knows sit, then make it sit.

The use of the dominant dog collar is explained in one of the e-books.
http://leerburg.com/pdf/theoryofcorrections.pdf
If you cannot make him sit and settle down when another dog is around you may read this e-book.
You may also try to engage him with a toy or food do distract him from the other dog.
Just try to make yourself more interesting than the other dog.

 Quote: Aaron Myracle

I'm not convinced the dog is aggressive.
It's a brat.

If it knows sit, then make it sit.

Sit is good.

She cant lunge, hackle up, raise a tail, or push her weight forward in a sit. She might still bark, but it will be a very different bark, and it won't be long before she gives it up.

Work on your sit through desensitizing. Once you know the sit is possible under distraction, correct as neccesary.

Voila!

Good dog.


Aaron is the best.

 Quote: aaron myracle

I'm not convinced the dog is aggressive.
It's a brat.

If it knows sit, then make it sit.

Or it's been over sensitized to other dogs and is incredibly reactive. To me it sounds kind of like a dog that has often been pushed over it's threshold (dog parks, day care, neighbor dogs) and has developed a pretty low one.

To the OP-
I would go back to square one with training. Start doing marker training with her if you haven't already. And start inside where distractions are very low. Highly reward calm focused behavior. When she is 100% inside with calm focused behavior then you can start adding in distractions on a very incremental basis. Remember, short highly rewarding baby steps.

I'm not sure what your work schedule is, but I'd probably quit taking her to daycare for a little while and make it a point to work with her with her one on one. Day care is most likely exciting her even if she doesn't interact with other dogs and right now you want her to learn to be calm.

Once you know the dog understands and can do what you expect her to do, start adding in corrections, ie, you've had a month of great sessions keeping her under threshold with dogs in the distance and she starts to get a bit worked up, then you step in say "forget it - sit".

I would highly recommend getting the book "Control Unleashed". I think you will find many ideas in this book that will be helpful.

Thanks everyone for all your words of wisdom, it's been extremely helpful. We went out and meant business on our walk this morning. One dog on each side, short leash, confident, added on an extra block as well. Stopped along the way to do some sits. Made them sit before I we took a short sniff/potty break. Things went well. We didn't run into any dogs either (just ones behind fences but no reactions to that). We did have a vet appt today and there was a dog in the waiting room and Kippy didn't act up, so that was good sign too, but I think she was just trying to hide from having her anal glands done lol.

Jennifer - Thanks, I have to remind myself of that. Cute pup.

Lauren - lol yeah Kippy's done that with random things she sees in yards as well. I think partly due to my anxiousness and partly due to release energy. I did notice on our way home she barked a few times at a loose cat but I told her to leave it and we went on our way. It wasn't full out devil dog bark though, more of an energetic i want to chase that bark. We'll work on the sit through desensitizing too. Cute pup.

Roland - I'm going to look into the dominant dog collar and read a lil more about it. I'll also read the Theory of Corrections ebook tonight. I think that may be a good fit for Kippy. I don't want to use the prong collar and I think the ecollar would be hard since I walk 2 dogs. Kippy def hates the halti type collars, it seems to affect her breathing even though it shouldn't, she starts panting weird especially when it's warming. Right now we just use a regular collar and clip on leash but would like something so the collar is higher up for corrections etc. Like at the vet today, they put on their own slip leash just in case because they said she looked like sneaky cattledog that could probably slip out of her collar if she tried lol.

Aaron - She's definitely a brat. I'll have to keep making sure I make her work for everything. Today I had her sit and do mixed up are walk to make sure she was always watching me. The one trainer we worked with told me her aggression isn't too bad, she's just a bitch and she likes to work. lol.

Mara - maybe that's part of it too, her fuse is beyond short now. We've stopped going to daycare for the most part. I've only been taking them once every 4-6 weeks because they also do their nails there and Lucy loves it. But maybe I'll start getting their nails done somewhere else (I tried on my own but the black nails make me nervous) and just taking Lucy once in awhile (to help her socializing) or for vacations because I know they'll take care of my Kippy. I will also get that book - we don't have that one yet I just saw there is videos for it as well - hmm.

Kippy after a hard day -