Blue came to me almost 6 months ago - we rescued him from a shelter, just an adolescent shepherdy thing.
We've had our ups and downs, struggles with resource guarding, the cat, and Blue screaming when he didn't get his way. We've made small steps.
But Blue really struggles with anxiety (I suspect dramatic lack of socialization as a puppy), and I struggle with a whopping lack of self confidence. I think, Blue and I need to learn to take life in stride, forget about the downs and focus on the ups. Im hoping that through writing about it - I can force myself to look at our successes and see how we're growing together.
Every morning we go for a walk. Yesterday morning Blue started to panic as people left their houses and got into their cars to go to work (we usually walk before this time while people are still sleeping). It's always hard to see him so frightened, tail tucked, eyes wide, loss of ability to focus. Today we went for our walk again, and it went very well (granted it was a weekend so no one was going to work...) but he was calm, relaxed and responsive. And I made a major effort to try and be the same way for him...
We'll see how tomorrow goes...
