I've just been for what I thought was going to be a lovely walk with my two dogs.

I was crossing a bridge over a dam to get to the woods and saw a bunch of people coming towards me with a whole host of dogs.  As they were all off the lead and mine on the lead I made mine sit to keep them calm as one of them pulls towards other dogs.  All but one person then put their dogs on the lead but the loan dog came straight up towards my dogs with no recall from the owner.

My jumpy one then lurched as he felt threatened and nearly had me over and to this I had no apology only a few sniggers.

I can't believe sometimes how some people can be so inconsiderate.

I have tried all sorts to calm my jumpy boy down but he is just so eager to play with other dogs, he is very sociable and friendly but also a bit stupid when it comes to other dogs.

Amazing isnt it but I think they just assume that if their dog is happy and sociable etc it wont be a problem. 

My boy is the same it drives me mad sometimes

Glad to know I'm not on my own.

Finn is a bit difficult at times, I have seen the thread on halti's and thought I might try one on him just so that he he easy to handle when I'm on my own.

Anyone got any thoughts?

My Beardie baby is extremely bouncy and happy and would dearly love to play with every other dog she sees.  At 11 months she is beginning to slow down a tiny bit.  I have never had any luck with haltis as I find I have to watch the dogs all the time as they can get them off, Beardies are real Houdini's.  We have been doing a lot of one to one lately with treats to get her attention on us and it does work most of the time but put her back in the group on leads and she is the one that causes chaos trying to climb over the others to get to a new dog.  I personally will not give up until I have this under control and I hope I live to tell the tale.

On other dogs approaching yours, it never fails to amaze me that people let their dogs approach mine without any recall.  I was walking my TT the other day, through the town, when she was approached by two labradors.  Pip was on lead they were not.  To cut a long story short, one of the labs came right up to her face and she gave it a good telling off.  The woman with the dogs said 'He only wants to say hello', as if Pip had done something terrible.  I told her I would not like to have a stranger come right up to my face like that and would probably react the same.  She said 'the're only dogs' and I said 'thats why they have people to look out for them'.

Coo!!!  I don't usually think that quick.

Wow I wish I was that quick.  I always think of what I should have said minutes after.

I use a gentle leader on my springer pup, without I can barely hold him - and I can hold both my other dogs (a total of 63kg to his 19kg!) when they both really pull.  He is terrible when there is another dog within 50 feet - totally obsessive, completely forgets who, what and where I am and tried his darndest to get to the other dog.  With the gentle leader on he is much, much better - can't get the umph behind it to pull me along, and it seems to remind him that I exist as well :D