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Posted by PHRiot on October 29, 2002 at 21:42:55:

In Reply to: He doesn\'t like to socialize! posted by Svetlana on October 28, 2002 at 21:24:39:

Oh my gosh! How horrible! Where do you live? As to socializing your pup, it takes time to get used to other dogs. Teeth cleaning can be helped by giving your pup raw bones, cow bones that is. I hope things get better for you all :):Hi, it's me again.

:We are growing :):):):).

:Anyway - he still bites me (while playing, even sometimes when he's angry at me - like when I dodn't give him a treat). Nothing works. I'm just praying that he'll grow up one day and stop doing that. In meanwhile I keep putting aid-bands on my scars from his teeth.

:One more thing - he doesn't like to socialize. We took him to the local dog's park - he was growling at every dog who tried to approach him, hiding his butt so they couldn't sniff it :):):):) and showed absolutely no interest to dog's games. He just laid down on the grass and stayed there untill we took him home. So wired!

:On the street when some dog tries to make friends with him he just growles and steps back.

:What can help??? Dogs's school only? Why does it happen, I've started worrying seriously about it.

:Another question: my vet said that I should start cleaning his teeth now so in future he could be aware of such a procedure.

:I don't have enough imagination to picture how I could do it: he just won't allow me to open his mouth for cleaning and there is no power in this World that could make him do that :):):):).

:Anyway the good news is that it seems he's able to feel what we feel and that's true: a couple of days ago we couldn't sleep because of the tragedy in my home town: crazy terrorists took hostage of 700 people in the theater. We just were watching TV all night long and praying two nights in a row. Thank God, those bastards failed to kill so many people this time, our special forces won the battle.

:HE COULDN'T SLEEP EITHER: HE WAS SO ANXIOUS, HE LICKED OUR FEET AND HANDS (INSTEAD OF USUAL BITING, KHE-KHE) AND EVEN TRIED TO SNUGGLE THOUGH USUALLY MY "LITTLE MAN" HATES ALL THOSE THINGS.

:It's unbelievable - how clever they are.

Follow Ups:

• Re: He doesn't like to socialize! Svetlana 10/30/02 (2)
  • Re: He doesn't like to socialize! PHRiot 10/30/02 (1)
    • Re: He doesn't like to socialize! Svetlana 10/30/02 (0)