I have a pitbull that is 1year and 3months.I got her from my uncle and it is scared of me or any other person.I have tried no look,no touch, talk. Please help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a 5 month old male Maremma who had been afraid of me since the day we got him at eight weeks old. He is friendly to everybody else, even strangers but he pisses and lowers himself to the ground if i am in the area. We got him from a goat herder and his parents are working dogs. That may be a reason why. I feed him everyday and walk him one mile and a half. He is fine if we are visiting or walking but in the yard or house he fears me. Yesterday we laid together for about 15 minutes but he would tense up every so often. I experienced this before, with a mastiff American bulldog cross I owned, ten years ago. He out grew it before he turned one but Phoenix seems different. He just looks at me and walks as far to the other side of the yard as he can get from me. My wife has to leash him before I can take him out. Off our property he is as loving as any dog can be. I need help!

Dear Cesar,
First of all let me tell you how sorry I am for your loss. Daddy was a wonderful friend and example to the rest of you pack and all dogs you have rehabilitated and humans you have trained. He will always be remembered by those that admire the wonderful job you do.
Well, my problem is Isis, a “Great Dane” or “Dogo Aleman”, how we call them here in Spain, that we bought from a breeder about two weeks ago. She is six months old and was brought to us by the breeder who had already a hard time taking the dog out of the car. He insisted that she was a really good dog and was very scared from the almost three hour drive and being on a car. He insisted we should leash her and keeps her that way for a couple of days until she got used to her surroundings. As soon as she got out of the car she got into the dog house put her head down on one of the corners and did not get out. We put a collar on her and she did not like it at all, getting her on a leash was very difficult. After the breeder left it took us more that five hours to get her out of the dog house and into our house where we thought it would be safer for her and she could get used to our smells and those of the other dogs and cats. We have a really big property with 20K square meters of land and we have three year old Great Dane who is very obedient and submissive to us, three yorkies (that’s a different story) and five cats who help us keep mice and moles away. Well, Isis got into a corner with her head down and did not move all night. The next day she got out and was out all day playing a little with Jabbar, the other Great Dane, and doing her own thing. At the end of the day it was very difficult to catch her to come into the house to sleep. Every time we try to get close to her she runs away… it’s been like this for two weeks and we don’t know what to do. When she is inside the house at night, we have no problem getting close to her and petting her but she will be tense and not trusty. She has never tried to bite us or attack us and she lets us pet her when she is inside the house in her corner. We’ve called the breeder a couple of times and he says we need to give her more time, but I am starting to think that she was not very well treated by the breeder or perhaps the other dogs she lived with. We have contacted a dog trainer who will come to examine her but at this point we are contemplating the idea of returning her to the breeder, something we have never done before and we wouldn’t like to do until extinguishing and trying all possibilities for Isis to adapt to our family. She is a beautiful dog and we can see in her eyes that she has suffered some kind of abuse that makes her behave so fearful of us.
Hope you can give me some ideas of how to handle this situation and trying to help ourselves and Isis being a happy family.
We love your show and admire the work you do.
Thanks so much for everything,
Marisol Garcia Penalta