My Gizmo was like this when I first rescued him as he was starved and treated very badly. Each time I would see the signals that he was ready to react to something, like seeing a surfboard the first time at the beach. He immediately stopped walking and looked at it in complete fear, I then picked him up and walked over to it while carrying him, I touched it, then let his smell my hand, as dogs associate most things with smell, hearing and sight. After he investigated the smell of my hand, I shave him a treat, I then put him on the ground near it and he smelled it, I gave him another treat, I then took his paw and touched it to the surfboard and gave him another treat. I repeated this on every walk when we would see a surfboard, and after about a week he started to run up to every surfboard because he then associated them to treats and being a good thing :-) treats work wonders along with a soft calmness from you. I would go slow, identify what her fears are and go through this process with each thing, one at a time as to not overwhelm her :-) it takes time and it's been about 10 months and now little mr Gizmo is a completely changed dog that no one would ever know he ever came from such a bad situation :-) bless your heart for rescuing her, I have a feeling over time, your patience will pay off big xoxo |