Stranger anxiety?

[Kyoko]

I have been noticing Charlie's behavior toward to the other humans....
When people ( Anyone, in any sex, age, or ethnic background) approaches her to say hello, she seem to be very excited, and happy, want to go see them. She is wagging her tail, romping aroung, etc...
But she would not go to them, let them touch her, or anything.... I get down with her to let her know it is OK, but she would get behind me, pounce around me.( still happily, and excited though) And would not let people pet her.

I am feeling like she has some sort of anxiety over other people, and trying to socialize her as much as possible, taking her out when the school bus comes, taking her to the park, playground, puppy social group, etc...

She is now almost 14 weeks. We got her at 7 1/2 weeks, she was with her littler and her parents in the breeder's home, with breeder's children....

Does anyone has any experience in behavior like this?

[Kyoko]

You know I have been working on this socialization stuff, taking her to the park, to the puppy social etc...
And guess what?! She ended up with Kennel Cough!! :(
Kennel cough vaccine is usually not included on regular set of vaccine, but I think it is worth getting it, if you visit dog park often!

[Ginny Nightingale]

I think I am about to deal with this with my new doodle who is 8 months old. I have a 2 year old doodle who loves everyone, but this one is very skittish around men. I have had her two days now and she has totally bonded with me but hides from my husband! I will be going off to work tomorrow and he is in charge of the dogs (he is retired) so THIS could be interesting!

[Kyoko]

Thank you Debbie! I will look for that book...
Since the weather got better, we have been taking her out to the park a lot, including the dog park... We have been asking people to please give her some treat, so that she can get used to the other people, too. It seems to help a little... She took some treat from a group of older ladies today.

[Debbie, Brianna and Duncan]

Yes, and we have had really good luck. It was tough in the beginning, my instinct at first was to sheltered her from the fears. My GSD dog lived most of her beginning life with fear of strangers then once we adopted her at 6yrs old, she was pretty well set in her ways. So I looked and looked, always for the best thing to do, but she was tough, trying different approaches to help her took us all the way out to actually consult with this Author and behaviorist and this is one great book I think called Cautious Canine, and it has some wonderful tips on how to help a dog before-through-then passed their fear. In it there is a great approch to dogs who are fearful of strangers/people. It is a slow process I have to warn you, it does take quite a bit of time (probably each dog is different though and your is still very young). I wish I still had the copy...gave it to a friend of mine who was going through the same thing. Hope this link works for you :) Debbie

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