Hey Dogs Today magazine,
I was wondering if you could do a
article on dogs who are nervous of men? My two-year-old Labrador Jayde is
nervous of strangers but its mainly men. From about eight months old, for some reason
our happy and sociable little puppy was gone and was terrified of men. We
think that maybe someone came to our house, be it the postman or
delivery man while we were working, and it scared her a lot.
We've worked with
her a lot over two years by taking her to work with me and dog shows, trying to
build her confidence, and she's slowly starting to
get better. She still has her bad days where she will run, hide, cower and
growl to get away from men and unfortunately because she is a Labrador, people don't see this breed as
having any problems and they will often just stroke her without asking which
sets her back. However, when she first had this problem their wasn't a lot of
information out there about how to deal with it and I was scared that she might
have had to be put down in the future for gowling and scaring someone.
Thank you.
Laura Bicknell, by email
