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Tanaya, taken from a pretty far distance, with a very nice camera.
She really wanted the food. |
I want to introduce you all to Tanaya. She's a beautiful little cream doxie with just stunning color. Tanaya is not my dog, but I decided to do a blog about her for a few reasons. Tanaya doesn't trust, although she is not mine I have lived with her for about 4 or 5 months, and she still barely looks at me. I know the situation (or at least from what I could tell) that Tanaya came from was a wonderful home, but I believe the problem was she only had to deal with one person, and being in a new place after flying simply terrified her. I've been trying now, the entire time I've lived with her, to win over her trust. I've tried bribing her with food & toys, keeping her in my bedroom and spending time with her, anything you can imagine. She has got to the point that if she is in an enclosed area (with no way of escaping) she will
CONSIDER coming and sitting by me so I may pet her, of course on the terms that I don't look at her. Same goes for food, if the reward is good enough and I don't look at her (or even in her direction) she'll consider taking it from me, though she prefers not to take it out of my hand, she will if the reward is good enough. She seems to be curious, but too fearful to actually let her curiosity get the better of her. She's extremely intelligent and it shows, if there is any possible way to escape a situation where she caught me glance at her even, she WILL figure it out. Keep in mind I have never done anything to harm or scare this dog. But, the key is to keep trying, although it is extremely frustrating, living with a dog that you can't even look at, you can't give up.
