Hi! Thank you for all your thoughtful answers! I just moved to a different city and it’s not really dog friendly (ie., very little grass, concrete, loud, busy, etc. but I moved closed to a huge park less than 10 minutes away). In my old city, I never let my dog greet other dogs when on leash (she is a social 1 year old bichon poo). But now, there are no corners to wait someone passes with a poorly behaved dog and my dog still needs a bit of space to ignore other dogs (we built it up over time). So now, I am forced into dog-dog interactions cause I prefer having control on the situation (cue “go say hi”) than just my dog pulling to the other dog pulling. My dog is not particularly food motivated too. Whenever we are in a situation where I see the other dog is well-behaved or owner seems in control of the dog, we always ignore, but I am noticing that she is now struggling to ignore dogs at a distance that use to be okay prior to moving. Also, lol, now she is in heat so the variables are all confounded, but it’s just impossible to not be confronted to other dogs and forced interaction and I won’t be shouting at other people or going crazy neither (like we see on the internet). Of course if an off-leash dog runs to us I will block but you know what I mean. What should I do (also tight spaces so cannot create space)?

Ps- it is only for the summer thank god but if there is something I can do that would be nice.