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Chance is now 10 months. He's always been a wonderful dog to be around and behaves wonderfully...Except when other dogs are involved.
Used to he'd ignore them but now he doesn't? He's never had a bad experience with any dogs and does great around all kinds. I've tried to socialize him as much as possible but this is really setting us back and it's rather embarrassing on my part because I want a well behaved dog.
He knows sit, lay, stay (I can leave for over a minute and he'll stay right where he is until I come back and give him a release command), heel, come, leave it, drop it, give paw (left paw), give other paw (right paw), high five and is learning "bang bang" (Play dead) and roll over. He even knows some hand signals. He's a smart cookie and I'm proud to say I've done all of his training by myself and I'm only 16 and never worked with a professional for any dog.
However, he gets on my nerves when he barks. It's not that he annoys me but he's embarrassing.
He can do so much but he see's a dog and he's choking himself on the lead and barking like an idiot. He just wants to play, he's never been aggressive and if you take him to the other dog he just wants to sniff butts and do his doggy thing. I've only done that twice since those were the only times I actually knew the dogs/owners. The rest of the time I took him out of the situation or tried to keep him in a sit turned away from the dog until he calmed down and the other dog was gone.
He only does it on walks or at the park. He's barked twice at dogs in the pet store but considering all the times he's been, thats not very much at all and was a rare situation.
I broke down and bought a prong collar to give it a try. It works great so far but like any training tool, I don't want this to be a life long thing.
Any ideas on how to get him over this?

Used to he'd ignore them but now he doesn't? He's never had a bad experience with any dogs and does great around all kinds. I've tried to socialize him as much as possible but this is really setting us back and it's rather embarrassing on my part because I want a well behaved dog.

He knows sit, lay, stay (I can leave for over a minute and he'll stay right where he is until I come back and give him a release command), heel, come, leave it, drop it, give paw (left paw), give other paw (right paw), high five and is learning "bang bang" (Play dead) and roll over. He even knows some hand signals. He's a smart cookie and I'm proud to say I've done all of his training by myself and I'm only 16 and never worked with a professional for any dog.
However, he gets on my nerves when he barks. It's not that he annoys me but he's embarrassing.

He only does it on walks or at the park. He's barked twice at dogs in the pet store but considering all the times he's been, thats not very much at all and was a rare situation.
I broke down and bought a prong collar to give it a try. It works great so far but like any training tool, I don't want this to be a life long thing.
Any ideas on how to get him over this?