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Very Scary Things – What "spooks" Your Dog? – Join the Conversation!
Yesterday at our LIVE HoundTable ???? event, we began our time together by sharing what we’ve seen dogs react to, in a fearful display.
Take a peek at this quick excerpt – then, add your observations:
What’s something you’ve seen that has “spooked” a dog?
????Let’s see how specific we can be and create a list together… this will be helpful as we move into “what do we do about it?”
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I’ll add people with lots of facial hair and/or sometimes face masks.
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People in large hats
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I wonder if they think, “Whoa! Your ears are really weird!!!” Or “What happened to your head?” Lol ????
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Right!? I think they think that, too!
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Lido doesn’t like rustling coming from the woods – but it only “scares” him when he’s in the yard at night.
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I’m with Lido on that one.
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I put scared in quotes because often I think it’s just a territorial reaction – to foxes and coyotes (rarely but they’re around) in particular. But territorial behavior can be seen as a kind of fear, which is interesting. It just depends on how the dog would actually react to the intruder. Hazel would stand her ground. I think if Lido would stand at all, it would be behind her. ????
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I’m STILL with Lido – I’m behind Hazel, too! ????
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@david @programdev
I had to chuckle at these comments about Lido, Hazel and Catherine!
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I have a guest dog at the house now, and she was spooked when she saw a ‘flax pack’ (to apply to my sore knee) circling around in my microwave. Long after I took it out, she still eyed the microwave suspiciously, lest the hulking mass reappear. ????
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Gotta be a dog trap!
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No one mentioned (r I didn’t see if they did) that seriously FEARSOME event: Thunder and/ or cracks of lightning!Thunder has got to be the mother of all fears! Thoughfor some dogs it is just NOT scary. For in stance, neither of my dogs (that I have owned as an adult) was very thunder-phobic. But I think I’ve read also that what many pups react to is actually before the thunder begins, they sense the atmospheric pressure change and this scares them into the nearest closet, bathtub or under-the-bed-cave. Then the thunder is just a pile-on to existing fear.
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For sure, Nina! I have one of those. As soon as I noticed her fears (as a puppy), I tried really hard to positively, proactively condition thunder, but in the end, I wasn’t consistent/it was too scary. Now I just mediate the noise by doing all the things: white noise, large fan, loud soothing music, medication, thundershirt and cuddling.
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