Dog Health Questions: Dog training - how to correct aggressive and manic behavior towards other dogs?

We have a 3 year old french bulldog who loses her mind (jumping, barking, running..) when another dog walks past the house or she sees one on tv. Not only is it annoying and embarrassing but we're afraid she might hurt herself. Any suggestions for correcting her behavior.

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I had this same problem with my toy poodle, only everything was higher pitch. :p As much as I corrected or made noise or said "HEY" it didn't even make him flinch. I seemed to be invisible to him. Every time a person walked by our window, there was all out barking, but if they had a dog, it was all over, crazy barking and growling. When he was younger he also barked like crazy whenever I was watching Dog Whisperer and a dog was barking on TV. He;s now a very well mannered dog. Here's what I did.

TV barking: when he starts barking I paused or mute the show and address him immediately, saying "Hey." When he's quiet and calm again, I would continue watching the show and if he starts up again, SAME THING. Repeat until he is completely quiet.

Barking at passing people and dogs: I had to use counter conditioning for him. Every time something pass buy I had tons of treats handy and fed him one after another. He slowly started associating passing objects as a positive experience. Did this for a couple weeks and starting weaning him off treats. He's pretty good now. Does not bark at people walking by now and only mumbles when dogs walk by. It's a long process but it's pretty solid. Best wishes.

ADD: It's spelt Cesar Millan and DO NOT USE a prong collar on your french bulldog, you will choke it.

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• This is a usual trate. Especially with Bulldogs. (Bred to fight). Now an easy way is to watch Cesar Mallon. Buy a pronged collar and participate in Basic Obediance Training. This will give you control and Confidence. I would gladly help you find a trainer


• practice by taking her for walks on a leash, when she does this tug the leash real fast, not hurting, but just making him aware that he's doing wrong.. everytime she does something you dont like jurk the leash and stop her,
  a dogs mind is set to only please the owners mind. So for some reason she thinks that you want her to bark and stuff, weither its case you pet her telling her its ok or what I don't know, But I do know you need to show her EVERYTIME she does it, you need to let her no you don't like it..
  
  ALSO, whenever you notice the behaviour is calming down and a dog goes by and shes calm, give her LOTS of loving to show shes good.


• I'd lean more toward Tofu's answer.
  
  One other responder said the dog only wants to please the owner...which could be somewhat misleading.
  
  A CALM-SUBMISSIVE dog wants to please it's LEADER. A dominant dog (yours) really doesn't care about pleasing you (at the moment).
  
  The root of your issue is dominant behavior. Establish leadership and correct unwanted dominant behavior and things should get better. Tofu's got the right idea with desensitizing and correcting. Dog Whisperer is a great show to investigate as well. You can find some short clips at the National Geographic website at: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/ch…