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Aidan I have a question about a little puppy that was born near our house. The mother is a very fearful dog. She is a stray who hangs around in this village. She has gravitated toward us as we give her food and show her kindness. She hangs around our house and gave birth to her pups on our land. (only 2 survived) She kept them hidden but she let us come near and pick them up.

I have had Rastus, an Australian terrier (or some similar breed) since 2001 when he was 7. He is now 15, a little slower, a little blue tinge over his eyes, hearing not what it was.

Part of my walk takes him past the off-leash area, where there are often lots of dogs. He slows down and then stops as he gets close. He used to be friendly towards other dogs, wagging his tail and they would sniff each other happily.

I have a 14 month old Chesapeake Bay Retriever mix that I rescued when he was 8 weeks old. The first 4 months he was fine--showed no signs of being fearful of friends and strangers entering our house. At about 5 months of age, he started to be fearful of people barking and growling at them and when I took him to dog training, lunging at the other dogs. After about 3 months I stopped taking him to training because it was way too stressful for him even though the trainers kept on telling me this is what he needed, that he would get over it. On walks he also would lunge at other dogs.

Twenty-seven years ago I was twice my daughter's age. For those of you who want to do the math, my daughter is currently two and a half years old - just old enough to start enjoying Sesame Street.

Sometimes I eat my breakfast watching TV with my daughter. Not a whole lot has changed on Sesame Street in the last twenty-seven or so years, even a lot of the original cast is still there. Big Bird hasn't aged a day, even if his puppeteer, Carol Spinner, has.

I am an avid clicker trainer and all my dogs are trained using one. I am also working on expanding my knowledge as a Trainer. I have a Golden Retriever that get growly face at other dogs. However, it is not all the time. She does not lunge at other dogs. She sometimes even will greet them with mutual sniffing. Then go into attack mode. Other times she just instantly loves the other dog.

Pascua came to us as an abandoned dog in march last year,a young Brittany Spaniel,she was only about a year old and seemed very timid and frightened. She followed me like a shadow all the way home whilst I was out walking with our other dog. We decided to let her stay.

From http://www.kevinhogan.com:
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Answer: There is new research that shows some people are born with a propensity to be shy. Carl Schwartz of Harvard Medical School and his colleagues conducted brain scans on 22 adults as they looked at pictures of familiar and unfamiliar faces.

I adopted my dog three years ago, and she was a lot of work. At 6 months she was not housebroken and over-excited about everything. Thanks to crate training and consistency she's much better especially when she's in the house. Here's the problem: she gets super excited when she sees other dogs, and wants to play. When I try to briskly walk her away from other dogs her body tenses up and she becomes frozen. She will not move, and sometimes eve trembles with excitement. It looks aggressive, but it's not. I have tried to distract her with food and this sometimes works.

Hi,
I've invited a friend over to start filou getting some practice relaxing about having people in the house. And to test out his barking training
My plan is have my friend to ring the bell, come and ignore the dog.
I'll have Filou on a lead and will hopefully be able to be successfull with shush. He does it very well for me otherwise, and to get him down as often as possible
I was going to give my friend some very special treats that she can drop on the floor around her, still without saying anything to him.

I have a 5 year old Lancashire Heeler, who is to say the least a madam! She had always been a protective dog but recently she has become more aggressive. She constantly barks at everything and anything. She attacks the post which comes through the letter box, if someone comes to the house she bites their feet.We have always shut her in another room when someone comes to the house then after a few minutes we let her through and she used to be fine with people, but now she is very aggressive towards people.

She is also starting to be aggressive towards us if we don't let her do something or stop her from doing what she wants then she growls at us and has even snarled at us and gone to bite us.