Thank you for the well written and thought out response. I live in a suburban area so we aren’t constantly around people/dogs necessarily on our walks. I use the gentle leader harness for both her(catahoula) and my pit/lab mix. I’ve found it best to just ignore other dogs that walk by, across the street of course and she seems to somewhat pick up on that energy. She’s also getting older in her years and I think that’s chilling her out as well.