I visited Cocoa, a Chocolate Labrador age four years old.
Cocoa does a lot of jumping up and is quite stressed and anxious.
One particular problem is that she is sometimes scared of walking over shiny floors and they live in a house with large areas of wood and tile.
Poor Cocoa will suddenly stop and freeze. If she is very desperate to move she goes backwards.
Interestingly, this happens randomly and not in the same place, in different rooms and in different houses.
Cocoa’s owners will now be working on giving her confidence in them and in herself and in reducing her stress levels in general. They will teach her various strategies to help her overcome her fear of shiny surfaces.
