Sunday, June 14, 2009

House dog

A new dilemma. Zorro doesn't want to leave the house.
All was fine yesterday morning, when we went for a 7-mile run on the tow path. The run wore us all out.
Later that day, though, when I tried to walk Zorro around our property in WV, he refused to go very far from our house. This continued all evening, and I had to drag him out to do his business before bed.
He was more normal this morning, but still didn't want to go far from home. And now that we're back in Arlington, he's showing the same behavior, refusing to go for our usual afternoon run. He let me walk him just outside our fence, then made a beeline back to the yard.
Today is sunny so thunder isn't the problem. No moon, either. So maybe this is what people on border collie message boards call a "border collie moment." A friend who adopted a shelter dog said her dog behaved beautifully for the first few weeks, then started acting up. Her theory: he was afraid she was going to send him back to the pound.
That could certainly be the case here. From what I can determine, Zorro was in a shelter for several weeks before he was rescued, then at his foster owner's home for a couple of weeks. So he may be anticipating his next move. How do we tell him he's not going anywhere?

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