Like I said, he reminds me of your typical cat, "I'm going to do what I want to do". He'll sometimes sit there for an hour letting you pet him as he sleeps by your feet, other times he decides he's just going to lay in the corner and won't come over no matter how much you coax him. He does come around a couple times a day looking for love and attention, but it has to be on his terms. It was something like picked up by a foster, dropped off at a shelter, transferred to another shelter, transferred to a rescue, and then transferred to a foster home before we adopted him. We were really surprised to hear just how much he was moved around. I do now that he spent a lot of his early life before we adopted him moving around to several different shelters, rescues and foster homes. That would make him close to 5 months old now. It would be nice if he got more involved with us and paid more attention to us as well!
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He does come around a couple times a day looking for love and attention, but it has to be on his terms. The Japanese Spitz is a small to medium-sized dog that Japanese breeders first created in the 1920s. Any tips or suggestions?Ĭlick to expand.He was 9-10 weeks when we got him. Is there anyway to make the aloof dog more people centric or attentive? It's weird for me to have a dog that acts so distant. only wants attention when they are in the mood for it) (It's almost like he acts like the typical cat. He'll occasionally come around to use once or twice a day and be happy to see us, but generally he's just very much content with doing his own little things around the home and ignoring the other pets and people. Around strangers he seems generally uninterested, maybe just briefly walking up to smell them before running off to do his own thing again. No amount of coaxing for love and attention will bring him over from the random spot he decided to lay down at in the room. He pretty much sets his mind on what he is going to do and ignores everything else. (Which is weird because the rescue labeled him as a lab / boxer which he really doesn't resemble at all).Īnyway, we had the guy now for a little over 2 months and he only grows more and more aloof. We aren't sure of his breed, but vets think he is a greyhound mix. We recently got a rescue puppy, and he is the MOST aloof dog I have ever seen. (Labrador Retriever personality pretty much). My experience raising a few dogs now has always been with the very people friendly and welcoming type dogs.