aurorag23

sammy my chihuahua use to be realy cheerful and happy. but when i took him to the vet recently, a vet assistant handled him very roughly because he was jittering alot. and i kept trying to calm my baby down saying" its ok sammy its ok" she snapped at me and said "dont say its ok cause its like your saying its ok for him to freak out. your messing with his state of mind." i was shocked at how she was talking to me, but even more shocked on how she was treating sammy i asked for another assistant immediately. since then sammy has changed his attitude towards me. more like towards females. everytime i pick him up or pet him, he jerks a little, as if hes scared of me handeling him. and when i call him he will come to me. but at times he wont listen to me. i will literaly get on my knees to see him from eye level from wherever hes hidding and i will call him for four or five minutes. "sammy come here, sammy come here." i try this in all different tones of my voice. and when he finial comes to me he comes to me scared with his head tilted down and his tail between his legs. it makes me realy sad cause the last thing i dont want is for my sammy to be fearful of me. i want him to know that i love him with all my heart. how can i brake him out of this.