DeathRowPets

Thanks Erny for your help. My educated guess would be that she needs a lot more one on one obedience training than our other two dogs who are easy, want to please and well-behaved. This little one is "Daddy's Favourite" and VERY spoilt. ;-) As you suggest, I think we should put more effort into general obedience training and try a step at a time. Don't know what happened to her in early life as she is a DoggieRescue and about 2 years when she came to us.

Hello everyone! This is my first post...;-) I have a female Minature Fox Terrier cross who has a fairly nervous disposition in general. However she yaps and gets very excited when she is on a lead and sees another small dog - even if they are far, far away in the distance! Doesn't seem to be the same with a big dog! If we are able to go and say hello, she settles down after the usual greeting of sniffing. She is definitely not aggressive. But often we are sitting at a cafe and another small dog comes and sits a fair distance away and she will make life very unpleasant with her continuous excited agitation and high pitched yaps and squeals - even when the other dog is ignoring her and not even looking her way. By the way, she does live with another small male Terrier dog and a female Boxer, so she has plenty of doggie company and they are with her almost all the time. They both just look at her with distain - as if to say pleeeeease just shut up! Have you any suggestions re training that could help her settle down with this? Many thanks