I would practice teaching him to focus.
This is basically where you get the dog to only look at you and not its surroundings.
It can take some time, but it is well worth it.
Start in your home, first you need to teach the pup to sit.
After you have got the pup sitting on command you can make the sit last longer by adding the command "focus" or "watching" and hold the treat right in front of your face.
(You can do this with or without the pup sitting, I just find it easier to hold their focus on you)
If the pup does not look away, it gets the treat.
Next you can move up to the same thing, but with a family member walking past... again, only rewarding if the pup does not look away from you.
Gradually increase the activity around him until he is confident with the command.
Then it's time to take it outside, where there are much more distractions.
Although it is teaching the dog to basically look at you, it is also teaching it to ignore the distracting things around it.
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