@allanc Yes I read the post twice, I just wasnt sure I was reading it correctly. Confused myself on why a dog would go back because it is having health problems.

I have had my rescue Woody for 3 weeks now, she was rescued from the meat markets in China. She has been abused, and the rescue organization that I got her from was able to rescue 11 dogs from there. My dog has a passport! LOL. I knew nothing about the breed. The first trait that became apparent is the stubborn one. If she doesnt want to do something she will freeze in place and not move, no matter what.
She is skittish, And these first three weeks have had their difficulties. I have been reading all I can about the breed and the Shiba Inu as that is her mix. She does bark, and she does growl.
Right now my main concern is to hopefully show her that she is in a safe place and loved. She is slowly coming out of her shell. For three weeks she stayed in the kitchen and would not go to other rooms in the house, so I put a crate in the kitchen and she goes in and out of it, it is her "safe place" The door of the crate stays open 24/7. Well today was a milestone, When I got home from work I had a moment of panic because she did not greet me and was not in her crate, as she has been for every day. She was in my bedroom sleeping on the dog bed I had placed in there in hopes that some day she will sleep in my room. Small step, but it filled me with joy.

@tanza I would be very afraid to let her off leash, I do not know that she would come to me if I called her. From what everyone has said, I am leaning towards obedience training, as a first step. But have also read that you cannot have just any trainer as the besenji is a little more difficult of a bread?

Soooo super cute!! Welcome, I love this forum, have gotten so much help from the members!

Well I got so much help with my last question, I am hoping I can get some with this problem. Woody loves to go for a walk, she begs all the time to go. Problem is once she is out, she doesn't want to go home, and will stop and freeze and I cannot get her going again. When she figures out we are heading home, that is when the freeze happens, she literally will not budge unless I walk in a direction that is not towards home. The first time she did it was half a block from home, next time a block, each time it has been a little farther from home....I think because she is learning the different paths we take. Today she did it a mile and a half from home. Took me ten minutes to get her to move, and then she pouted, walked as slow as she could, and stopped feet planted intermittently all the way home. A walk that should have taken an hour and 15 minutes took 2 hours and 15 minutes. In the past if I walked away from her and turned my back to her and not look at her, she would give in and come. But that doesn't work anymore. Another problem is she has been abused, beaten, so when she does this and I get frustrated and walk back to her ... she can tell I am not happy, and she will back away from me. So then I feel I need to pet her to make her not feel afraid of me, but I also feel when I do this I am teaching her she will get positive reinforcement for bad behavior. What do I do????? I am afraid to take her anymore.

This is Woody, she is a rescue, and was rescued from the meat markets in China. She is a mix of Basenji and Shiba Inu

Thank You all for the kind words. My dog does look more like the Shiba Inu, it is hard to tell in the pictures she does have the wrinkle in the forehead, and her face is slimmer than the shiba a little, I think due to the basenji. I have read a lot on both dogs and she has characteristics of both. I just figured since she looks more like the Shiba maybe I should go to a Shiba forum.

My girl is a rescue and I have bought several toys, even a treat ball that you put the treats in and they have to roll it around to get the treats out. She wants nothing to do with any of it. I threw a stick, she went and picked it up and then wanted nothing more to do with it. I threw a ball, nothing.
All she wants to do is go for walks, ALL the time. And she throws a fit at the end of the walk because she wants to walk some more. We walk over 3 miles a day. Yesterday I took her for two walks, the second one a mile, and she did the stop and freeze thing and would not move when she figured out we were heading home.
She is constantly looking for something to "hunt" she takes off after birds, rabbits etc.
Any ideas?
As a puppy I dont think she ever got to play, and so I just don't think she knows how.

@sleacc yes "pulling" does not work at all!! I always give in to her, has never been a big enough thing to not to... and I hadn't read about how smart they are at getting what they want yet. I will try the 1, 2, 3 thing. She is a very fast learner and knows some words already.

Yes I have the same issue, it is not all the time, but my brother lives with me. She used to growl at him every day, and he would give her a treat, I told him to stop rewarding the bad behavior, and that did help. She only growls now when I am in bed, she sleeps beside my bed, and if he walks past my bedroom she will growl. It's always a soft growl. I immediately tell her no, and 99% of the time she will stop.
But I am the only person she will let pet her, and the only person she will go for a walk with. I thought maybe they were one of those 1 person dog types. If someone else tries to pet her, she just backs up, doesnt growl or anything... just gets out of their reach.

Soooo super cute!! Welcome, I love this forum, have gotten so much help from the members!

Thank you all. With your advice I have made a few changes.
First I am incorporating walking past the house during the walk, yesterday three times. And by the end of the walk she had no idea we were going home!! So it helped for yesterdays walk for sure, and I plan to keep doing that.
Second, she seems to only like/trust me. My brother lives with me and she will not let him get near her. He gives her lots of treats to try to win her trust, she will get close enough to take the treat, but that is it. --It hasn't worked in 3 months. So I told him no more treats all the time. She only gets treats with training or for reward for good behavior. I got her a big bone from one of the suggested sights, and she has that she can chew on.
This change has made a difference in her as well, for the good.
I am learning just as much as she is -- we are learning together.

@tanza Thank you. I have talked to the vet, they said they knew some good trainers, she wasnt sure if the trainers had ever worked with my breed of dog, Shiba inu basenji mix. I live in a small town, and my resources are limited.

@eeeefarm Once we are home she is fine, a happy girl, yes that is when she gets fed, right after we get home from the walk. After she ate she then begged all evening for my attention and to go for another walk. I love the idea of going past the house during her walk!!

@tanza How do I do that? How do I find one? She is just acting out because she doesnt want the walk to be over.

Well I got so much help with my last question, I am hoping I can get some with this problem. Woody loves to go for a walk, she begs all the time to go. Problem is once she is out, she doesn't want to go home, and will stop and freeze and I cannot get her going again. When she figures out we are heading home, that is when the freeze happens, she literally will not budge unless I walk in a direction that is not towards home. The first time she did it was half a block from home, next time a block, each time it has been a little farther from home....I think because she is learning the different paths we take. Today she did it a mile and a half from home. Took me ten minutes to get her to move, and then she pouted, walked as slow as she could, and stopped feet planted intermittently all the way home. A walk that should have taken an hour and 15 minutes took 2 hours and 15 minutes. In the past if I walked away from her and turned my back to her and not look at her, she would give in and come. But that doesn't work anymore. Another problem is she has been abused, beaten, so when she does this and I get frustrated and walk back to her ... she can tell I am not happy, and she will back away from me. So then I feel I need to pet her to make her not feel afraid of me, but I also feel when I do this I am teaching her she will get positive reinforcement for bad behavior. What do I do????? I am afraid to take her anymore.

@eeeefarm I did not see the link initially. That is amazing! DidI hear a clicker in the background?

@zande I am sorry if I wasnt clear, we have 4 different paths we can choose from each day for our walk, (actually it is her walk) and each is around 3 miles long. Some days if I am feeling up to it, or the weather is a little nicer we will go for longer.

@elbrant I do give her a variety, we have 4 different paths around my home, and I have taken her to the state park a couple of times. She has one path that seems to be her favorite....as she spends a lot of time sniffing all the smells, there are a lot of dogs that use the path. And she definitely lets me know which way she wants to go for the day!!