My girlfriend and I bought a chihuahua from a pet store a few days ago. It just turned 5 months old because no one wanted to buy it. It was always nervous, shy, submissive, and real scared when anyone came around it. We think he may not have been socialized because he's been in a cage at the store for so long. He is scared of noises, even if it's the television, even if its our footsteps of walking around, just anything in general. We took him to a pet store yesterday and he actually for the first time ran with the other dogs and played, but after we left, he went back to being scared of us or anything in general. He doesn't bark or make noises, and even makes it hard to feed him because he doesn't want to eat (he's scared of the bowls) so we hand feed him and give him water with a small cup for now. We can't train him because when we talk to him, he gets scared and tries to run away or crouch into a corner. He's always constantly crouching into corners. Any ideas on this?
2007-03-16
17:24:58
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