I have a friend we?ll call *Nameless* and she has a little Dog who has not left his home or yard in about 3 years. He is reactive to many things and she doesn?t want him traumatized by anything out of his routine. She has created a terrified little Dog. He has had so much ?sameness? for the last few years that any scent or new place is horrifying to him.
She needs to walk her Dog. Dogs love to smell different smells and to see different sights. She thinks she?s protecting him from the world and the world from him but what she?s really doing is creating a paranoid Dog who thinks that the neighborhood he?s lived in his entire life is fraught with danger and scary things.
She needs to walk this Dog even if it?s only for half a block. He will have fun and she will have a better and more balanced Dog in her life.
