I have a German Shepard/Collie mix, Pebbles, who's also always scared.
We adopted her from a kennel, She was found in a crate with her newborn littermates. They were abandoned and starving but shouldn't have been abused being so young. I don't think this is why she's always scared unless the people in the kennel beat her while she was there.
Any time you stand over her or look her in the eyes or either use a scolding tone or a super-sweet tone, she gets scared and pees and hides and wines. We have to coax her out of hiding and don't want to scold her for the accident because she was scared and couldn't help it.
Often when we get her out of hiding, she's shaking and leans into us like she wants to hide inside of us! She'll stay like that for up to 30 minutes!!!! We try and comfort her but we're torn. We dunno if comfporting her every time she does this is only making it worse or if it's actually helping.
If she does anything wrong we are too scared to scold her!
What should we do?
2007-11-19
16:04:28
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