| One suggestion I have is that you ask people not to pet her. What I mean is, let her go to them. Have them ignore her until she indicates that she's comfortable with them. If they make an overture and she reacts with shyness, ignore her some more. My first Rottie was 15 months old when we got him. He wasn't mean in any way, but if people tried to pet him too soon he didn't like it. If they persisted, he'd grumble. I learned to tell people to ignore him. He wasn't about to go after them or anything, so they'd just ignore him and let him snuffle around them and check things out. THEN when they made an attempt to pet him he was fine. But he had to do it on his own time. Don't stop taking her places and letting her meet new people and pups....she needs that socialization. Just don't let people push too much and hopefully she'll come to realize as this continues (and she gets older) that there's a world of new friends out there just waiting to meet her! :) |