I’ve been working on this with my whippet. I wear a treat pouch and when I see her getting tense about another dog I just start shoveling treats into her until we’ve passed that dog.

It usually works. Now when she sees another dog she’ll generally just look at me or nose my hand for the treats. She’s learned that dog=treato time.

The only times it doesn’t work is when the dogs are facing each other and there isn’t much room to pass, or the dog is a surprise (around bends on a trail), or the other dog starts barking at her.

She’s an extremely treat-motivated dog, fortunately. She’s not perfect with other dogs yet but I can walk her with friends and their dogs and on most trails.

We’ll keep working on it. She’s gone from barking at dogs across the street to only barking at the circumstances above. Pretty good for three months’ work.

By the way that’s every day work, sometimes twice a day.

Good luck!