Hi guys
Just joined this forum so hello to all
I have a 1 year 9 month old border terrier x pug. I rescued her at 6 months old. She's a brilliant dog, behaves very well (most of the time) and is given plenty of love and attention. She gets 2 walks a day and 2 times a week gets a really long walk normally by a river or through the forests for a couple of hours. I'd say 7/10 of her walks are with other dogs, family or friends dogs.
Now my problem is that a few weeks back 5 minutes into one of our long walks through one of the forests, just me and her, I let her off the lead. After 2 minutes she pretty much froze. Her tail dropped right between her legs and she was looking around for something. Her recall is normally very good, however when I called her she walked off the way we came! I kept calling however she sat down and just stated at me. As I started walking towards her, every time I got close she kept walking off 15 metres ahead then would sit down again. It sounds odd but she seemed really scared, she was constantly looking around. After trying numerous times to get her to come back to me but her keep walking off I managed to get her back, and put her on the lead for the rest of the walk. Through out the whole walk she had her tail between her legs and was constantly looking behind her, and at times would dig her feet into the ground and refuse to move. There was noone or any dogs around that could of scared her! Since a few weeks ago she has done this 5/6 times on different walks. She only seems to do it when it's just me and her?
Before these incidents she has always been fine and loves nothing more than running around of her lead.
Does anyone have any ideas at to what it could be?
She sort of looks at me like "I really don't want to be here let's to home!"
Thanks!
Just joined this forum so hello to all
I have a 1 year 9 month old border terrier x pug. I rescued her at 6 months old. She's a brilliant dog, behaves very well (most of the time) and is given plenty of love and attention. She gets 2 walks a day and 2 times a week gets a really long walk normally by a river or through the forests for a couple of hours. I'd say 7/10 of her walks are with other dogs, family or friends dogs.
Now my problem is that a few weeks back 5 minutes into one of our long walks through one of the forests, just me and her, I let her off the lead. After 2 minutes she pretty much froze. Her tail dropped right between her legs and she was looking around for something. Her recall is normally very good, however when I called her she walked off the way we came! I kept calling however she sat down and just stated at me. As I started walking towards her, every time I got close she kept walking off 15 metres ahead then would sit down again. It sounds odd but she seemed really scared, she was constantly looking around. After trying numerous times to get her to come back to me but her keep walking off I managed to get her back, and put her on the lead for the rest of the walk. Through out the whole walk she had her tail between her legs and was constantly looking behind her, and at times would dig her feet into the ground and refuse to move. There was noone or any dogs around that could of scared her! Since a few weeks ago she has done this 5/6 times on different walks. She only seems to do it when it's just me and her?
Before these incidents she has always been fine and loves nothing more than running around of her lead.
Does anyone have any ideas at to what it could be?
She sort of looks at me like "I really don't want to be here let's to home!"
Thanks!
