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Old 12-22-2009, 07:14 AM   #7
JeanieK
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Originally Posted by katy-yorkie View Post
Any advice for me??? (please, please!) Buster cowers when we are going to pick him up even though we ask him if he wants "up". We ask him if he wants up, he will stop and cower and wait for us to pick him up. He will cower at most anything. He is very skittish, if you move suddenly he will jump like he was shot out of a cannon. He has never been hit, abused, etc. He is two years old and I have had him since he was a baby. Breaks my heart....
Many of mine will crouch when I go to pick them up, one even rolls onto her back. I think these are just very submissive dogs. They are not acutally cowering, they are just letting you know that they are submitting.
Others will stand by me sideway looking up asking to be picked up.
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