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Milo & Bella are sibblings (from the same litter) and we have had them since they were 6 weeks old (I know this is not the norm is the US,but it is here so please dont flame me for this - every dog I have ever owned has come home at this age and we´ve never had a problem
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Milo has always been super affectionate,happy go lucky,easy going,and although he´s not the bravest little dog I´ve ever known,he adapts very well to all new situations and he´s pretty much a wonderful little furkid.
Bella has been raised in the exact same way,yet she´s so fearful (very much so infact),she doesnt trust people,she even has a hard time trusting us,she´s skittish,she´s uptight..
We couldent even put her on the ground on walks until very recently,and even now,she will freeze if she sees a shadow (we´re having to walk her at night when there´s less people around) and if she sees a person,she begs to be held.
We´ve been wanting to try walking them both without a leash,but Bella wont come when she´s called,she just looks at us and backs away.She also does this at home which is very frustrating,because if we had ever hurt her or caused her any harm,we´d get it..but why does she fear everything (even us) so very much when I know for a fact that she has never been harmed? (I know their breeder personally,she is a friend)
She sometimes acts like she wants to play,and she´ll come bouncing and barking with a toy in her mouth,but once she´s within arms reach,she stops and backs up
When we pick her up,her arms flail around desperately,she´ll act like she wants to be petted but then she wont come anywhere near us,she will sometimes come and sit right next to one of us,but if we reach down and touch her,she´ll move...I dont get it and this upsets me so very much because being as we havent done anything to cause this,i dont know how to fix it.
Are some dogs just like this? Will she eventually come around? She´s not submissive by any means,infact,Milo is the submissive one of the two,Bella is most deffinately the alpha (she eats first,if she´s on their bed,he wont sleep there,if he´s asleep somewhere and she comes along,he´ll move,she hoards all the toys and he wont touch them,she pees over his pee on the pee pads etc etc),I honestly dont understand her behaviour at all,it´s as if we only have one dog because she´s completely detached herself from everyone
Milo has always been super affectionate,happy go lucky,easy going,and although he´s not the bravest little dog I´ve ever known,he adapts very well to all new situations and he´s pretty much a wonderful little furkid.
Bella has been raised in the exact same way,yet she´s so fearful (very much so infact),she doesnt trust people,she even has a hard time trusting us,she´s skittish,she´s uptight..
We couldent even put her on the ground on walks until very recently,and even now,she will freeze if she sees a shadow (we´re having to walk her at night when there´s less people around) and if she sees a person,she begs to be held.
We´ve been wanting to try walking them both without a leash,but Bella wont come when she´s called,she just looks at us and backs away.She also does this at home which is very frustrating,because if we had ever hurt her or caused her any harm,we´d get it..but why does she fear everything (even us) so very much when I know for a fact that she has never been harmed? (I know their breeder personally,she is a friend)
She sometimes acts like she wants to play,and she´ll come bouncing and barking with a toy in her mouth,but once she´s within arms reach,she stops and backs up

When we pick her up,her arms flail around desperately,she´ll act like she wants to be petted but then she wont come anywhere near us,she will sometimes come and sit right next to one of us,but if we reach down and touch her,she´ll move...I dont get it and this upsets me so very much because being as we havent done anything to cause this,i dont know how to fix it.
Are some dogs just like this? Will she eventually come around? She´s not submissive by any means,infact,Milo is the submissive one of the two,Bella is most deffinately the alpha (she eats first,if she´s on their bed,he wont sleep there,if he´s asleep somewhere and she comes along,he´ll move,she hoards all the toys and he wont touch them,she pees over his pee on the pee pads etc etc),I honestly dont understand her behaviour at all,it´s as if we only have one dog because she´s completely detached herself from everyone
