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Poor sweet little boy. This is how it is with rescues, never knowing what their past was. Lots of trial and errors, lots of money spent on what he likes and doesn't. But lots of patience and TLC over time he will come around. If he's not use to human contact that will take time. Do you have an idea of how old he may be. My boy is a rescue, but he was surrendered, not abused, loved much and spoiled rotten, I keep in contact with his prev. owner, send pics and vids. I am very lucky that I know what his background was. He was gotten for a little girl whose parents were getting divorced, the dog was to ease her pain for daddy not being there. The dog had no toys, the child was his entertainment. They didn't want him to play with toys, only play with the child who carried him around like an infant in her arms when she came home from school. The mom worked so the dog was kept in a crate for 8 to 9 hours all week.

When I got him I didn't know his back ground for 3 weeks. The 2nd day I had him we went to Pet Supplys to buy toys, he had no interest so I selected a bunch of things. My passed girl loved balls, she had so many in dif. sizes. This boy had no interest in even a ball. It took close to one year of enticing and teasing him with toys to get him to play. Now he's like a little kid when he gets a new toy, he loves, loves toys, and balls, he flings everything all over the room and my heart just swells with joy.

It just takes time for their personality to come through, some longer then others, you are dedicated to this little guy, you only have him a few months,and changes do not come over night. Working on training him will build a strong bond between the two of you and it will build self confidence in him.

Finding a high value training reward seems to be quite a challenge with this lil guy, I do hope you find something that he really loves. My guy is very food motivated, training him was so easy, he would stand on his head if that was in his training program for his reward treat.