Tiki goes to Florida
Some of you have followed our saga of Tiki, the rescue pup. As you may recall he was very traumatized, but he has been coming around. He has done well in doggy daycare and has successfully learned to ...
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doxiemom11 wrote:
Some of the behavior sounds like the puppy mill rescue we had. Sometimes the way people were dressed (men in hats) (men wearing heavy work boots) and objects (shovels) and other things set her off. She was afraid. She had lived a horrible life and those things hurt her in the past. She did get much better, but is took a good year for her to learn that she could trust and that we wouldn't hurt her.
Curious -- how does he act when a phone rings, or a timer on a stove buzzes? Ours lived with an electronic bark collar that buzzed before it shocked her. At first she was terrified of those type of noises also.
He pays no attention to buzzers or phones. He will bark when the doorbell rings, but our last dog (a standard poodle) used to bark like a maniac when someone came to the door and he was not aggressive in the least.
