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Originally Posted by Seahawk
Penny is the pup from the Dog thread, right?
I was hoping for a match. Great eyes on Penny, That is always the best sign.
Best.
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Yes, she’s the one. We brought her home this morning. She’s nervous and is afraid of me when I’ve been away from her for a while, but warms up to me fast. She’s asleep on the sofa next to me right now.
We did a lot of studying and came up with a plan. We are keeping her on a leash next to us or in her crate all the time for a while. We also make sure she sees us put her food down and we stay with her when she eats. The theory is if she gets used to the idea that all her safety, comfort, and food come from us she’ll be more manageable. I dunno. At least we sat down and made a plan we agree on and both promised to stick with it. So far Vic has broken it twice - put a bowl of food on the floor before we even got home with her, then took her for a walk in a place we agreed we wouldn’t walk her. (We are going to put in an invisible fence and agreed we would not get her used to walking across the line where the fence will be, so she won’t have that habit to break. She’s been walked across it twice.).