Well, we went to our first session with our new trainer and I have to say it was encouraging. I told her about how Sally reacts when she sees other dogs and how she is fine with some dogs and snarky with others. The trainer brought her female GSD in. At first, Sally was acting like a total twit--whining like crazy and trying to leap past me to get to the other dog. Finally she settled a bit and I had her doing exercises while the trainer was doing a little rally course with her dog. Eventually we got them working closer and closer together until they were both in down/stays, 3 feet apart, with no humans in between them [sm=eek.gif]. Sally hardly even looked at the other dog and if she did, her expression was relaxed like "Huh, another dog--oh well." Heck, even *I* was able to relax. It was a bit of a drive but worth it--we are definately going to keep going to this trainer.......