fearful dog, advice please?

[kellykelly]

I would say the shelter they were fostering for needs to know that these people just dropped the dog in your yard. Doesn't sound like very trustworthy people to me.
I'm thinking that the German Shepard wasn't going to do anything maybe you just panicked. You could probably have just picked her up if she's that small and turned your back on it. Because it must not have been running to fast if you could get up that tree.

How many dogs do you have? I hope no one drops any dogs in my yard 4 is plenty HaHaHa.

yeah, unfortunate thing is though I don't know who they were working for, only that they were fosters. found alternative exercise mostly indoors for her to prevent anything happening, but is working on trying to find the organization she came from so she can be in a less hectic environment...

may or may not have overreacted with the german shepherd but the approach seemed aggressive, when most of the off leash dogs tend to be I didn't want to take the chance the little dog could be hurt...

not counting xerxes I have 6 other dogs, all fosters...

[malluver1005]

was I not being clear? eh, sorry Dx

the dog in question is not Xerxes, she's a abandonded dog I'm fostering for the moment...<:\

edit: abandonded meaning she had another foster originally but her fear/lack of trust was too much of an issue for the fosters. instead of transferring her to a backup foster these people dropped her in my yard thinking I'd take her or something since I have a lot of dogs...x-x

This makes sense now...because I was wondering how you picked up your pitbull mix and ran up a tree LOL!!

[Herzo]

Holy cow you have 7 dogs! that's allot of dogs to handle. So do you work with a shelter or are you just on your own. And are you going to keep any of them. I have become a foster failure which is why I have my pit bull. I have fostered a few dogs in the past one was Maddie and after 9 years is back with us, so maybe you could say I have failed twice. That's not good is it?

[Serenity]

Take it slow and dont force her. Also never put her in a situation that cant be controlled (a loose dog with an iggnorant owner)
Keep her focused on you and never baby her for being scared... your just encourging her skidish behavior... Good luck : )

[kellykelly]

Holy cow you have 7 dogs! that's allot of dogs to handle. So do you work with a shelter or are you just on your own. And are you going to keep any of them. I have become a foster failure which is why I have my pit bull. I have fostered a few dogs in the past one was Maddie and after 9 years is back with us, so maybe you could say I have failed twice. That's not good is it?

I work with the shelters, dogs that can't usually get fosters. in this case their appearance is warped from the byb they came from, for some reason it scares everyone else enough not to want to adopt/foster them...:/

I'd like to keep them all, and as much as I care for them and love them I'd figure they'd be happiest in a real home. there's a blind border collie out of them I've grown fond of and his situations needs to be looked at more discriminately than the others, finding the right one for him might not be possible, if it's not I'd keep him at least. :I