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What's a random thing your doggo is scared of?
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Things that move and things that don't move
Not sure about scared, but strongly dislikes stepping on metal. Will walk around or jump over manhole covers when on a walk for example.
My dog has PTSD, or as I call it poop and toots stress disorder. Will get up and walk out of the room looking dejected when anyone farts. If someone is on the toilet, she is scared for her life
Semi-reflective floors in big pet supply stores, I can only guess he sees the reflections of the ceiling lighting in the floor and mistakes it for being very high up on, like, a glass floor or something?
My dog is scared of the wind. Specifically the draft, so when it’s windy outside he pushes up against me.
He’s also scared of things in the home that can be moved. Like if he loses a toy behind a box and he tries to fetch it, and the box shifts a little, he jumps back and looks at me all pathetically, like the box just scolded him.
Could be anything really, a chair, an aerial root from my monstera, a shoe horn. If it moves when he interacts with it, and it isn’t a door, it’s spooky!
They should be afraid of grapes; those are quite lethal to dogs.
But just the other day I went to take mine out for their walk and were super excited to do so until they took a step outside and some invisible thing scared the bejesus out of them. They both ran back inside nearly knocking me over and then cowered in the kitchen for a while. The next few times I took them out, the chipoo was fine but my husky would hug the left and run to her potty spot in the grass like there was something out there. She is pretty shy and wary of strangers, but that was the first time I ever saw her terrified of anything. There was nothing out of the ordinary going on that I could perceive.
Grapes can quickly cause kidney failure in dogs. Smart dog.
Perhaps they are grapes of wrath!
Any human who walks funny.
Lady with a crutch? Guy with a limp? Old people? Terrifying.
Other dog i knew was terrified of anyone in florescent yellow jackets
East and southeast Asians. He has cataracts and is nearly completely deaf, literally walking off with anyone with features even vaguely resembling mine, and frequently walking into things at home. Everyone looks and sounds the same, but this racist little bag of shit can still tell someone’s ethnicity by smell alone.
No problems with native Americans, Indians, Russians, Mexicans, etc.. He just hates east and southeast Asians. Mind you, he has no reason to have developed an aversion, anyway. He’d only known 3 when I noticed it, and all of them are kind people. I call him Cotton Hill when we have guests
the other guy said it, Grapes are deadly to dogs
I'm gonna go with balloons. not because they pop, but because she was a puppy and got he nose zapped by from static electricity.
Dogs hate grapes.
eh, we had goldie-mix that loved grapes. had to be careful with them.
Anything with goldie doesn’t count, especially if it’s all goldie :). Ours ate anything we would eat plus grass, horse manure, compost, ring-pulls, socks, money, rat poison, and a football (whole). Those last two were a trip to the vet.
Goldie hearts are so pure, it bleeds out into their coats…. But no one ever accused them of being overly clever.
Snickers didn’t look much like a Goldie, but her mom was one. (And she was one of the best dogs ever!)
Also it’s important to note most kids will eat all of that and more, given an opportunity, Goldie’s were bred to be eternal puppies (retrievers in general. Wouldn’t want the retriever to eat the duck or whatever.) so it’s really not their fault!
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
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