As I've mentioned before, Quinn is pretty shy. As she's maturing it doesn't seem to be improving overall. She has been well socialised and had no traumatizing experiences. Maybe a few uncomfortable ones but nothing she couldn't just step aside to remove herself from.
Bascially, she's met mountains of dogs. She's met everything from a mini shnauzer puppy to an adult great pyr. She's polite which I like even with little dogs but generally keeps out of the way of anything her size or bigger.
I do like that she isn't "OMG I'M IN YOUR FACE LOVE ME HELOOOOOOOOOO" and if a dog so much as gives her a hard look she respects it and backs off. She always approaches slowly and waits for the dog to show an interest back. If its bigger she generally says hi and then will start to shring back towards me. Should I just let her say hi and move her on right away and then build up time?
She met a few kids in puppy preschool and loved them but hasn't met any in a few months, I took her out the other day with my friend, her 3 yr old and her EB puppy. I really wanted her to have some more to do with kids. She was quite shy. She doesn't like pats straight on the head but she did warm up when I aske the kid if she wanted to give Quinn some treats. She ended up doing zoomies to go say hello and then running off again.
I've also noticed the last few weeks she's been moving away from her "I'm a puppy, I love everyone" way and now has very little interest in strangers. I don't mind this, I like reserved dogs. I have noticed her trying to duck away from a couple of people that have gone to pat her.
So I don't know if these are issues I should worry about or not, I don't want her becoming reactive, anxious or fear aggressive because I don't handle it rihgt. I try to take her everywhere with me and I can take her anywhere in the car, put her in the middle of anything and its not a problem but take her for a walk in my area and if a person starts walking behind us she thinks they are following us specifically.I've been taking her off to the side till then get past us. How should I deal with this? I live about 20 minutes from town so I've been trying to push into or close to town each day to keep her concentrating, she has improved a lot from that.
We do a lot of clicker training, she's never been trained harshly and she's had nothing traumatic happen. I just want to build up her confidence everywhere. I still carry mountians of treats wherever we go because I want to encourage anything positive I see. Should I just keep perservering? How do a make sure she feels safe with me?
Sorry for the super long post, I knew she was the shy one in the litter from the beginning. All the other puppies were jummping at me and trying to rip off the bottoms of my jeans and she was happy to sit by herself and a little unsure of us. But I figured I'd rather build up her confidence than end up with something too much to fit in here.
Bascially, she's met mountains of dogs. She's met everything from a mini shnauzer puppy to an adult great pyr. She's polite which I like even with little dogs but generally keeps out of the way of anything her size or bigger.
I do like that she isn't "OMG I'M IN YOUR FACE LOVE ME HELOOOOOOOOOO" and if a dog so much as gives her a hard look she respects it and backs off. She always approaches slowly and waits for the dog to show an interest back. If its bigger she generally says hi and then will start to shring back towards me. Should I just let her say hi and move her on right away and then build up time?
She met a few kids in puppy preschool and loved them but hasn't met any in a few months, I took her out the other day with my friend, her 3 yr old and her EB puppy. I really wanted her to have some more to do with kids. She was quite shy. She doesn't like pats straight on the head but she did warm up when I aske the kid if she wanted to give Quinn some treats. She ended up doing zoomies to go say hello and then running off again.
I've also noticed the last few weeks she's been moving away from her "I'm a puppy, I love everyone" way and now has very little interest in strangers. I don't mind this, I like reserved dogs. I have noticed her trying to duck away from a couple of people that have gone to pat her.
So I don't know if these are issues I should worry about or not, I don't want her becoming reactive, anxious or fear aggressive because I don't handle it rihgt. I try to take her everywhere with me and I can take her anywhere in the car, put her in the middle of anything and its not a problem but take her for a walk in my area and if a person starts walking behind us she thinks they are following us specifically.I've been taking her off to the side till then get past us. How should I deal with this? I live about 20 minutes from town so I've been trying to push into or close to town each day to keep her concentrating, she has improved a lot from that.
We do a lot of clicker training, she's never been trained harshly and she's had nothing traumatic happen. I just want to build up her confidence everywhere. I still carry mountians of treats wherever we go because I want to encourage anything positive I see. Should I just keep perservering? How do a make sure she feels safe with me?
Sorry for the super long post, I knew she was the shy one in the litter from the beginning. All the other puppies were jummping at me and trying to rip off the bottoms of my jeans and she was happy to sit by herself and a little unsure of us. But I figured I'd rather build up her confidence than end up with something too much to fit in here.