“Dear PoPville,
My boyfriend and I recently adopted a 2 year old Havanese rescue from a local shelter in the area. The shelter didn’t really tell us much on his background other than that he was pretty shy. Immediately when we got home, he ran under our couch and has taken shelter there ever since for two weeks and only comes out when we’re not home or at night when we’re sleeping (we bought a doggie cam so we can check up on him and see what he’s doing). We got him a crate and bed which he hardly uses. The only advice I’ve seen online is to ignore and leave him alone and he will start to be more comfortable with us on his own.
I know there are a ton of adopters on here and I was wondering if there is anything else we should be doing or if anyone has had experience similar to this?”