Phil from Maine

Maybe you was lucky, one of my Irish came off the plane very skittish. She wouldn't come out of the crate or stand up for us outside the airport. The breeder has a very good reputation and the pup was handled fine. She has come around relatively good although you can see a little skittish reactions at times but not bad.
My other Irish was shipped 1 year later and absolutely no problems what so ever. He started running around and greeting people right off the bat.

I am not trying to blame the process as the kennel where my Irish have come from ships out regularly and only has a few of these problems but, it does happen. They have also informed the carrier that they expect better from them if not will be looking at a different carrier. As they have had a few problems with the flight schedules being messed up from the aircarrier. The first pup had a four hour flight but, due to hold overs it took seven hours. I had driven five hours to the airport it was coming in on and waited an additional three hours due to the delay. This was scheduled to fly straight through to me, but, due to other issues it never happened. The next one did and without any problems.

AlaskaMagnum

I think that the Dog Whisperer did a show on this if you can find it.

In a nutshell, his solution was, the bigger a deal you make out of it, the bigger a deal the dog will thinkit is. If I remember right, his solution was a good old fashioned walking until the dog was plum worn out, then basically just made the dog heel across the floor. The dog was so intent on him, it forgot it was suppossed to be afraid of the floor.

TxVern

Thank you for that info. I'll have to try and find that some where.....

Mite

I got an idea for you. Whenever you introduce things you generally get the dog so excited that it forgets to be afraid. Find a place with a tile floor, I don't think Petsmart will go for this,but toss a clipped wing pigeon in the middle of it. If your dog won't make a bloody mess out it then the dog is hopeless .