[nagdu] passive dog

[Juanita Herrera]

Hello Dar,
Sometimes dogs are just the way they are. It is just their personality to be passive. I was a bit concerned at first when I came home with my dog because all the other dogs I had previously met were hyper, but mine is extremely calm. I thought that maybe something was wrong with her but then I learned from her puppy raisers that that is just the way she is. I am also in a similar situation as you. It is beginning to get very cold and it has been raining recently, and I have a cold that I'm trying to get rid of. Therefore, I have not been out in a few days. All I can really do at this point is initiate some playtime with her and our other dogs. She will not initiate it on her own and that is okay. I guess if our dogs really wanted to play they would initiate it on their own. I just let her be because most of the time she doesn't get any days off. She usually works seven days a week so I am letting her take advantage of her free time right now. She loves sleeping so she is doing a lot of sleeping. I think that what you are doing by initiating playtime is good. If your dog doesn't want to play otherwise then I guess that's fine as well. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Juanita & Anise

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On Dec 26, 2012, at 7:30 PM, d m gina <dmgina at samobile.net> wrote:

> I have a question for you folks,
> When we play with my dog he will play, if I am on the computer, or wish to knit, he stays by my chair and will not chew a bone anything like that.
> I had dogs that would chew for hours, and it didn't matter how long I knitted anything like that.
> Now we are in the teens where I won't get out and walk with him, so I am doing things in the home where he just isn't lieing around.
> I am also getting over a cold so getting out is going to have to wait until this is gone.
> He loves to be near me which I love, just wondered if there are any tips on how to get him to do something for himself with out me having to start the fun.
> Not often he will take a bone in his mouth if he hears a song he likes rolls on his back and growls at the bone.
> If you ask him if he is happy he waggs his tail.
> he is a thumper so loves the sound of his tail.
> Thanks for reading.
> 
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