Pets

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“Dear PoPville,

I’m a dog owner living in southern Shaw. My dog is a rescue and has fear aggression around other dogs, which we’ve tried to work on, but our vet has told us she likely always will be fearful and aggressive around other dogs. We have the proper harness and leash length to keep her and other dogs safe.

At times we encounter off-leash dogs. While I can’t for the life of me understand why they wouldn’t just take their dog to the Shaw dog park a few blocks away, usually owners are respectful and leash/pick up their dogs when we politely ask, with little to no fuss.

We regularly (1-2 times a month) encounter a group of adults walking a few dogs in our neighborhood who always walk one dog off-leash, while the others are leashed. (more…)

“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?”