What's the weirdest thing your pet is scared of?

[PawsAndCuppa]

My friend's dog is terrified of cardboard boxes but completely ignores thunderstorms 😅

Pets can be so strange sometimes.

What's the weirdest thing your dog or cat is scared of?

Vacuum cleaners? Bananas? Plastic bags? Random household objects?

I'd love to hear some funny stories.

Oddly,a friends tiny (size of a kitten) cat is terrified of my crocs

Im the only person she knows that wears them (I use them as slippers) and she cowers and hisses at me if I nip round wearing them

Shes a nervous cat anyway but she really doesn't like them

The washing line pole - no idea why? She's a 48kg Rottweiler, so really she shouldn't be scared of anything...

She also hates the hoover, unless you use the nozzle attachment to hoover HER, then it's ok

And she's not keen on when you rip tinfoil out of the box, but the cats also hate it too, so who knows what that's all about

Owls, yes after 8 years of having him, this big furry bear (newfoundland) has decided owls are very scary and he must be under our duvet shaking! No idea what's caused it, but he refuses to be anywhere but under the duvet the minute he hears hooting

Flies, the sound of flies, my hands flapping to get rid of said flies. Laughing or crying

Foreign accents!

My cat is scared of the mop but not the vacuum cleaner

My dog was afraid of coat hangers and umbrellas

Not unusual but thunder and lightning. Cat hid under the sofa today whilst a big storm was going on. She’s too big really to fit under there but she manages it.

My cats are terrified of the sound of silver foil being torn.

The sound of sellotape. He’s a wimp and is scared of a lot of sounds- the wind, the electric hob turning on and the sound YouTube makes when I turn the app on our TV.

My parent’s dog was scared of a pink ‘kiss me quick’ cowboy hat from Blackpool and flowers.

Ants 🐜

Wind, or even a strong breeze. Part of our walk back from her one day a week doggy daycare, involves walking round a corner which always seems be head on into the wind. The dog just stops rooted to the spot and will not budge, ducks her head down as if terrified and l really have to bribe her.
Her other one is having her harness put on and flinches with the click of it fastening. We know we have never accidentally pinched her in the fastening or anything like that and she loves going for a walk or in the car so it's not a bad association.

My little semi feral kitten is as tough as old boots, doesn’t bat an eyelid at the bin lorry, loud cars and motorbikes, thunder, fireworks, random things in the house beeping, pretty much nothing fazes her. So I was quite surprised the other day when she appeared to be absolutely petrified of the beginning of Ultravox’s Vienna and ran away to hide under my bed.

We've just discovered that ds's dog is scared of the word 'murder' but only in my dodgy Scottish accent

We are watching a crime programme and I repeated the word after a Scottish lady said it on the tv

He bolted while shooting me dirty looks

I know a horse that doesn't bat an eyelid at farm machinery (including when moving), livestock and various small grandchildren. However, the same horse will leap over, or completely sidestep, puddles... and another horse who panics when he can't see his mum. He's middle-aged 😂She seems to like the peace and quiet!

One of my dogs has no fear of water, unless it is clean water.

The other is scared of brass bands. To be fair, she'd never seen/heard one before, as we live very rurally, and were visiting family elsewhere in a busier place near Christmastime.

My springer goes shooting and loves a firework display but is absolutely terrified of hot water bottles if he sees it he runs a mile. He also doesn't like you shouting through cardboard tubes!

My house rabbit, who thinks nothing of fireworks, or of large groups of kids running around the house including jumping around him (carefully, I should add. He is all of our favourite family member and the kids/friends are very careful with him) is absolutely terrified of the little sound you get before you play a program on BBC sounds. It sends him into a frenzy every time. I have to have the volume down when I press play until the program has started.

My dds dog (hes a small breed)

We got him as a puppy and he was bomb proof-nothing bothered him and he adored every single person he ever met

Until we where out and about one day and a black man (man of colour?not trying to be a racist) walked towards him

He freaked out and lost it-barking and snarling at this poor bloke

He hated anyone who wasnt white after that (and still does to this day)

Poor dd was mortified and very upset

'My dogs a racist!'

A dangly cat toy with feathers on it. DCat stares at it in horror.

Cat is terrified of the ironing board being put up or down. Not the ironing board itself mind, as she will happily sit on it when it's not in use and left out.

My roughy roughy little terrier hates the sound when Netflix starts up on the TV! Fireworks, intruders, thunderstorms, huge barking dogs, Na no issues

My big girl (dog) is terrified of hedgehogs, in fact her reaction to one in the yard was exactly the same as my reaction to spiders.
She seemed to have the same degree of phobic horror and revulsion.

I'm don't know how accurate it is, but I've heard some dogs are like this because they find it harder to distinguish facial features

Mortifying though

That's what I said

He'd never seen a person of colour before and to him,it looked wrong

Poor dd was so upset as shes the least racist person I've never met and had to deal with the dog snarling and yapping at the poor bloke

She now has to avoid anyone of colour in the street as he has the same reaction

They're was this popular song awhile back. Can't remember what it was called, had the line "I belong to you, you belong to me, you're my sweetheart", and a part of the song was just short "hey", "ho". That part always made my dog stand and bark, looking for the threat. There was also a drum or base heavy song from arctic monkeys that used to do unnerve her, I always thought her response was similar to how she responded to the rumblings of thunder. She once wigged out over a pile of dirt in the garden once. Another had a healthy fear of bees, but that extended to planes flying over head.