Quote Originally Posted by Pacmanides
Hello,

I want to thank everyone who helped with my previous issue of my dog peeing on the floor when I come home, the advice worked like gangbusters. We seem totally past it. But now we are to the deeper problem: bonding.

I got Sam (an one year old Lab-Chow mix) from the shelter about two months ago now, and she does not seem to like me at all. When other people pet her, her tail wags, not for me. When we go for walks and she poops outside, I try to praise her, but she ignores me. So often when I look at her she looks afraid and sort of indifferent, but she does not seem happy at all. Because we live alone, my presence is really all she gets consistently, so I want us to be good friends. I love having this pooch here, and want very badly to bond with her, but I am not really sure how to.

Send word,
V.
Sometimes it takes time- serious time. It took femka about 2 months too. And you have to remember- you just stopped this peeing on the floor on your arrival so really your time together has just started as far as trust. Just keep doing what we posted before, and give her some time.
Femka would not even come to my husband for a month- and now as anyone can see, she actually prefers him- getting down right silly when he comes home.. Rescues need time. She just learned you were not a monster when you came home- that may sound bizarre- but she didnt trust you- and just started too. Just keep on the path, eyes forward and she will come around.
When femka came around was when we had to put her on daily medication for thyroid, but the times the medication was given was when my husband got home ( alias the 'magic cheese" time..) Maybe you could add that one.. ( not the medication but the magic cheese time so to speak... Just not when you first come home or before you leave- its needs to be hours from either so she doesnt associate with something stressful. LIke watching tv at night " you want magic cheese??" at first she will look at you like you have lost your mind- uh huh- I give it a few days before she figures that one out.... lol.. And she knows you did something special for her..