I got a 3 year old toy chihuahua and am only on day 5. I know he could probably be traumatized from his life changes but we treat him really good and when we focus attention on him he gets really happy, if things don't totally go his way he looks like he's crying, shaking, tail between legs. Were not yelling at him strictly and he's happy most of the time but if I leave and even though the rest of my family is home (who he likes) he looks really depressed. Am I making him too dependent on me? When I'm home I like to spend all my time with him and there isn't much time he isn't not petted or cuddled with by me and that's even when we sleep. Maybe I'm letting him make too much of a production of me coming home or leaving. Or maybe his last owner did bad things to him. I'm not sure what to do

I would give him more time,5 days isn't long to be in a new home,new things to cope with,with lots of TLC i'm sure he'll settle down

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Thank you Jan