First session with Duncan, seriously fearful Catahoula/Bull Arab X

Описание: This boy is very special, he's had an extremely rough start to life, leaving him seriously fearful and suspicious of people.
He's around two years old, and he's only been here in his new forever home for around six months.
I've only seen him once before, when I did the assessment around three weeks ago.
His "greeting" at the gate was pretty much full on, but the barking and carrying on came from fear, he was saying "go away, go away, go away please".

It was clear that he did not want to bite, at least not as long as he had the opportunity to go into flight.
I did a little bit of work with him then, and had a very small breakthrough, and judging from the more subdued greeting this afternoon, and, even though we had to go through the same process as we did then to show him that being close to me was actually pretty good, it took a lot less time to get to that point this time.
You can read more about our initial meeting here:
https://www.norauscanineservices.dog/...

I have not included all the footage showing how I got there, as it would be just like watching paint dry. :)
Let's just say using Negative Reinforcement is not such a bad thing when you understand how and when to use it.

He is extremely noise sensitive as well as fearful of sudden movements, so quiet, slow movements are the go.

This is going to take a long time, I need to build a relationship with him before we can start proper training, having said that, a lot of this will come through long line work, which we started today.

Let me also correct a comment I make in this video where I talk about "seeing a seed of trust being planted", this is not quite right, acceptance would be a more appropriate description. Trust, will take a very long time.

I am so grateful for having been given the opportunity to work with this sweet boy, and maybe, just maybe, be able to show him that not all humans are scary.