What random things is your dog scared of?

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I’ll start:

Flags fluttering or anything particularly flappy, which made coronation weekend a bit of a trial and makes me nervous about going camping…

inanimate things that look like animals or people - there is a house nearby with very large, baffling, pair of stone Great Danes outside, which shall not be passed under any circumstances.

Tinfoil, sellotape and Velcro (being pulled off the roll/ pulled apart)

Helium balloons - not to be trusted.

Hard floors
The fly zapper sends her upstairs
Anything blocking the pavement

His harness, lead and collar. Anyone would think I'd been hitting him with them the way he cowers or hides. But he loves going out, just doesn't get that out means harness. He hid last week when he saw me put my going out for a walk shoes on.

Yesterday he was scared of an empty bucket. I put his toys in the bucket to tidy up and I think he thought he was moving out, hid under the sofa and wouldn't touch the toys until I'd taken them out of the bucket.

Mine was scared of fireworks, the little blip the smoke alarm gives when the battery needs changing, llamas (he was spat at by one as a puppy) and the 'big butchers'. He spotted these two suddenly and nearly left the ground. Would not walk past them ever again 🤣



This time with photo

Mine was scared of closed doors, open were OK. Stairs of any kind. I had trouble getting him in and out of the house steps, there were only three.
Newspapers, flies and shopping bags.
He was a very large border collie and l lost him in March and miss him so much.

This made me smile as I suspect my dog is afraid of flies for exactly the same reason.

As soon as a fly comes in the house I'll leap up trying to swat it or get it out of the house. This usually involves, as you say, a lot of flapping and sometimes a fair bit of swearing on my part, which I suspect freaks her out, as otherwise I never raise my voice in front of her (I live on my own so no-one to argue with).

It's been going on for the 12 years of her life so now when a fly comes in she automatically goes upstairs or outside.

Fireworks and any bang. Fine with gun shots on tv and sleeps through noisy tv fireworks and shooting scenes. Ok with thunder. Someone slamming their bin lid - hysteria. Trains - can cope with noise but seeing them - even in the distance is an immediate leg for home.
Applause. Coped fine with a helicopter landing near her but applause at daddy's concert - saw me being dragged by hound through a church like a cartoon character.

The 100 yards at the top of our road on the main road. Have to drag her. She's fine on other main roads.
Full on collie with rattling trailers or little flatbed trucks.

Snowmen - fortunately we live in one of the least snowy places in the country!

People standing still facing away from her (e.g people waiting at bus stops) or people talking on the phone. Absolutely loves people otherwise, though.