Something a little interesting I forgot to add, the first time he meet my aunt's dog, she's 15 too old to play with, he had just come back from 2 hours at the dog park and he greeted her like a normal dog, just sniffed and that was about it. They were even in the back yard together for about an hour and perfectly fine together. The next weekend they met again, same exact place, the only difference he was coming from home so was full of energy, opposed to be completely drained. He did the stiff scarey dog thing with her than proceeded to try to play with her, which he wasn't allowed to do, my aunt's dog is far too old for rough housing. So if he was doing the scarey dog thing out of fear then why did he do it then with a dog he had already met and knew was no threat to him? Its like a teenage boy meeting a 90 yr old woman, while I agree old woman can be scarey, there is nothing fearful about this dog at all.
I like the not truly dominant idea. Like I said I knew he had insecurity and dominance problems from day one, as we had a problem with him marking. He doesn't do it in the house anymore but hes very bad when going to new places. I tried working with him on this by taking him to places like certain large chain pet stores where it is very tempting for him to mark but pretty easy for me to correct him. And he was doing great with this, his heeling, and going crazy around other dogs, but then 4 weeks ago he broke my arm, a whole another story, so I really can't work with him until my arm is healed. I tried taking him out in public last weekend to a pet memorial day event with other dogs and hes completely regressed with this =( and with only one good arm I was really unable to correct him or control him, I was dragged everywhere by a barking jumping crying dog trying to get to the other dogs and to pee on everything. I tried bring him around the other dogs which made things 20 times worse and half the owners were terrified of him. We ended up about I can't express how embarrassing this was. Sorry I'm just venting, thank you for reading my horribly long post