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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the poster who was asking about rescue organizations a week or so ago. We did a lot of research and adopted a 15 month old Australian cattle dog mix. The rescue organization had very little background information on him as he had never been placed in a foster home. I don't think he's ever lived in a house before last night actually. Anyhow, he's essentially terrified. Yesterday was rough - we brought him home at 2 or so and took him into the backyard, let him sniff everything, introduced him to the house, etc. he was doing okay but wouldn't eat a thing. We sat his crate up in the living space and he went in for a few minutes but then just laid on his blanket by the couch (we won't let him on the couch). Eventually, around 8, he ate but still hadn't peed. We could tell he was exhausted, but wouldn't let himself fall asleep so we decided to put him in the crate, which was easy, and shut down things downstairs and went upstairs to go to sleep. He lost it! Was HOWLING. It was honestly heartbreaking. So we brought his crate upstairs into the hallway outside our bedroom and kept the door open so he could see us. He calmed down considerably (not even a whine) and we slept until about 6am. I got up to feed him and take him outside. He ate fine, peed, we went for a 20 minute walk around the neighborhood, everything was great. Then in the 3 minutes I was upstairs DH had accidentally spilt warm (not hot) coffee on him! Now he's traumatized and won't come out of his crate (except to get some water) which is still upstairs. I guess I'm just worried he will never come out? Any idea what to do? He's friendly when we interact with him but will not come back downstairs at all. If I want to take him for a walk should I try and pull him out? Should we let him lay on the couch with us so he feels more included? Please help![/quote]

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