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Walking Fearful Dogs without using Caution can Create an Aggressive Dog

Walking a dog that is fearful or scared can be a difficult task although a necessary one since the dog needs to face their fears in order to recover.  The Dogster Tip of the Day touched on two of these subjects: avoiding large crowds while walking a fearful dog and Keeping your distance of a fearful dog.

I’ve been walking my new foster dog, Black Jack and he’s very fearful of most things outside: cars passing by, dogs barking on the other side of fences, people, etc.  I’ve learned to just ignore the object the dogs fears and continue walking as though nothing is there.  This reassurres the dog that he doesn’t need to fear these things and it also helps to reprogram their brains to not want to flee whenever something unpredictable happens.

I’ve been walking Black Jack a couple times a day for three days, and he’s getting better and braver every day.