Training A 8 Month Year Old

[Jetty]

I have been so proud of Jet's progress with our obedience. We are only up to the third lesson and he is already up to a standard that is amazingly so much better than what he was at. His behaviour issues have completely disappeared. There are however a couple of things I would like advice on to assist me with improving a few things at home.

Firstly, I took him for a walk down our long road yesterday. Nearlly every house has outside dogs. He used to go nuts and it would be a mission to get him to keep on walking with me. Now apart from once or twice where he barked and paid some attention towards a dog, which I will correct him. He will ignore and continue to walk with me The only thing he is doing is not loose lead walking. He seems to pull a bit until towards the end where he gets worn out. I have tried to fix this with teaching him to heel and whenever he pulls to walk in the other direction. I am just wondering is there another method or is there something I am not doing correctly? I am using a check chain if that makes any difference.

Secondly, We live on acerage and next door's dogs seem to run up and down the side fence. This usually occurs in the early mornings and late afternoon/night. They have what I assume are barking collars on so they don't bark. Jet seems to get a bit worked up and will run up and down the fence barking non-stop. I have been using the "out" command and have been also using "come". It seems to work sometimes but not all the time. Is there something else I can do to make him stop and when I go outside to not continue. Should I try to distract him with toys or food, However these won't work for the whole time?