[quote=gsicard]Hello Jessica, Anyway, at 2 1/2 years that would be difficult to train out of Kynda and it's difficult to know "which" dog you are training. Is it the CO, GP or GSD or the aggregate of them... What we need to do if figure out what triggers her reaction and then work on getting her used to the trigger. Were the little ones females or males? What happened with the little dog who did not run - was it picked up? Did they ignore it?[/quote] Hi Gary, I looked at the link you sent, and it seems that Kynda has the "Protective aggression" not the "Dominent aggression". Yesterday we were out for a walk and my sister stopped to visit with someone who has some horses, they also have two dogs. I stayed at the other side of the road because Kynda doesn't like horses either. The dogs were behind a fence, sometimes they would bark playfully but Kynda didn't react to them at all. The dogs came out of the fence and went over to my sister and her dog, Kynda was still fine. As soon as the dog turned and started to walk towards me and Kynda, Kynda had to react. That seems like the protective aggression. Also the link mentioned that barking is usually a protective sign, and Kynda does lots of barking when she is being aggressive. I checked with my mom, she said the one little dog stayed on the ground the whole time. Kynda and Brooke even ran right past it when they were chasing the other little dog. I'm not sure if they were male or female. Kynda has gotten a lot better with neighborhood dogs if they stay in their yard. They can even bark and she doesn't bark back. She always reacts when dogs that she doesn't know approach us, or when we are camping if a strange dog barks she sometimes will bark back. When Kynda does act aggressivley to other dogs, what should I do? Do I correct her with the leash, ignore her as the one trainer told me to do, squirt her with water? I've heard that creating a negative experience (correcting her or squirting her with water) whenever she's around dogs will make her dislike dogs even more. Right now I praise her as much as I can while she's being good, and if she reacts, I tell her no, give a jerk on the leash and keep walking. How would I desensitize her? We don't have a dog park here, so it would be hard to get her around a group of dogs unless I did some more lessons with her. Thanks for the advice Gary, I appreciate it! Take care, Jess