Feral Dog Rehabilitation Day 2

[@jvjdrn]

What a beautiful girl!

[@pconyc]

Great video! Working with feral dog now. Big challenge, not food motivated at all

[@pawlitebestfriends7673]

They usually don't have much food motivation at first because fear inhibits hunger and food motivation (example- you probably aren't thinking about food while you are riding on a roller coaster, even if you were previously excited about a chili cheeseburger). Give them time and space to decompress and the good stuff comes from you (however far away you need to be, it could literally be opening a door to the room and tossing a handful of threats in), usually unfortunately for feral dogs our appearance signals negative things for them, such as social pressure and a reduction of their freedom because they feel less secure)

[@ralphturner3798]

I believe you said that she lets you know when she needs to go to the bathroom. How does she let you know this?

[@pawlitebestfriends7673]

For the first few days I would give her the chance to come out of the crate and bathroom and interact every 2-3 hours. Some dogs also will give off a different sounding whine/bark if they need to bathroom or will scratch at the crate, some dogs don't do that at first due to fear or they may have come from a situation where they are used to going to the bathroom where they sleep

[@ralphturner3798]

@@pawlitebestfriends7673 Thanks. Very interesting set of videos.

[@chippy7745]

Did she go ON the pee pad and if so, how does she know to do that? It seems she’d just go anywhere if she is feral… no?

[@Psyop1976]

Boring

[@pawlitebestfriends7673]

Thank you!

[@9999deoxys]

haha.....:)@@pawlitebestfriends7673

[@hollys1159]

Rude !! It's a good video ❤