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As far as her possible fear of the scary floors, temporarily add some rubber-backed rugs so that she can transverse the floor and grip it with her pads and not feel insecure as she learns to accept the kitchen. You can gradually take up every other pad as she adjusts more. Encourage her to walk on the floor and slowly adjust to it by encouraging her onto it with a big of delicious, freshly-warmed bite of chicken or squeak toy and keep her distracted with the food/toy so she doesn't think about the fact that she's walking onto the floor she mistrusts for now. Leave treats along the wood flooring for her to "find" and that will encourage her to go onto the floor. Have her chase you around the apartment and run into the kitchen so she'll follow without thinking - things like that should get her to realize it's not that bad in there and form different, more pleasant associations with the floor.

A good obedience training and life-enrichment games and puzzles should get her busy working and learning and keep her busy with these things as an antidote to her new fearful state. As she works and bonds with you in the training process, she will automatically gain confidence and lessens her anxieties and fears and grow more self-assured.

Teach her how to be self-confident by not fearing strange or new things put in odd places. Get out a few treats and put them in a pouch in front of her. Say "Time to work" and take her over and introduce your dog to 5 strange new items(a book, a flower pot, a stick from outside, a radio, a kitchen tool) from the house or yard lying on the floor and instantly treat her as she nose-touches them or sniffs them to build and encourage her self-confidence. If she's afraid, encourage her by making it fun to go up to one of them by baiting her with your voice or a treat - and she instantly gets the treat if she sniffs it closely, paws or nose-touches it. After she is used to those things, replace them for another session with other things a few hours later. She will learn that new things or scary things aren't that bad.

Take her outside to hear the kids while playing with her with a ball and treats for a minute or two and back inside. Gently increase her outside desensitization sessions as she tolerates.

Keep her moving as much as you can for the next month. Take her for frequent, very short but fast walks with lots of treats along the way if she begins to act worried or anxious to keep her going forward. If you make the walks short, she will soon learn that even if she is scared, it will be over soon and besides, she'll get treats and before long, she will accept the noisy outside better. Walk her up and down any stairs you have the same way. Lots of treats and gentle or wild praise - whichever she seems to like the most as she gets toward the end of the session. Lots of smiles and "atta girl"'s!!!

If she begins to withdraw from any of her desensitization work, lick her lips, yawn or shake, shorten the session and up the ante to freshly-boiled chicken just off the stove when she's hungry. Use her instinct for food to get her to do things she wouldn't do for that food she's so hungry for. It will get her involved in things she wouldn't ordinarily do if she's hungry and help her accept the thing going on in the background or near her that she ordinarily might fear but will begin to ignore when she's hungry.

These are just a few, quick ideas I could think of off the cuff but if you work her, keep her busy and use her instincts for her good, she will begin to gain more confidence and feel less fear.