I have a new foster dog as of this week. She's a very timid little dog (adult Min Pin) and runs away from even an opening refrigerator door. She's terrified of my furnace (not clear if it's the noise or the hot air it blows out). She always cowers whenever I go to pick her up (though she very clearly loves being held). And she's frightened whenever I'm moving quickly around the kitchen. (Though she still likes to get in the way like every other dork dog in the world.)
We don't really know much of anything about her history.
I'm working on overcoming her fear of the furnace with counterconditioning. For everything else which scares her, given that it poses her no actual harm (not that she knows that) and she'll be repeatedly exposed to the stimulus every single day, is it advisable to work on counterconditioning with everything? Or can I trust that simple repeated exposure to things like an opening fridge door will simply become normal and less scary in time?
Submitted January 15, 2016 at 08:24PM by yelimseht http://ift.tt/1UUzZNf Dogtraining
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