Does anyone else have one?
PestDog has never been a social butterfly with humans - I'm clearly his first love, swiftly followed by DF who regularly dog sits. Other people who he shows interest in are his trainer / occasional sitter, and my flatmate (but that took about a month, and he's just using him for games of fetch, not cuddles).
Poor DGM keeps trying to buy his love with food and he takes the food but doesn't care about her. He acts like he's never seen DM before in his life. Dog starved strangers on public transport try to attract his attention and he ignores them and will move away if they try to stroke him, while happily taking my cuddles. He doesn't dislike strangers, they're just totally irrelevant to his mind, far more so than any dog I or family and friends have had in the past.
I've put it down to him having had a rather unstable life so far with several owners - but I don't know how common this is.
Interestingly, in the past couple of weeks he's shown interest in about 3 strangers - a man tying his shoes in the park who he ran up to, a friend in the pub he greeted immediately by jumping up and a man in the station he wanted to say hello to. I'm aware he shouldn't be running up to people or jumping up but it's so unusual for him that I think he might be learning to trust again.
Anyway, does anyone else have a dog who chooses to have a small social circle and has it changed over time?