# What's "thing" Is Your Dog Afraid Of?

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**Created:** [January 13, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-thing-is-your-dog-afraid-of/524836 "2010-01-13T21:05:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-thing-is-your-dog-afraid-of/524836/61 "2010-01-18T20:46:21Z")

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Our Bulldog Sydney is another member of the Vacuums Must Die Club. Every time we have to convince her to let its wheels live. She is also terrified of/disgusted by water if it’s not in her bowl. She learned this from her late Big Sister Bitz the Rott/Lab mix. Bitz was terrified of water to the point she’d drag you into the street if there was a puddle on the sidewalk.

Mala the Italian mastiff/bullmastiff mix isn’t afraid of anything except being scolded. Gunshots, vacuums, none of the usual suspects phase her at all. Dad raises his voice and she’s a puddle.

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**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-thing-is-your-dog-afraid-of/524836/62 "2010-01-19T15:28:25Z")

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> [@MitzeKatze](#):
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> Oddly enough, given this list one thing he is not afraid of that we recently discovered is deer. We encountered a deer in our park on one of our normal afternoon walks the other day and he stood perfectly still and allowed the deer to approach him. The deer (timidly) walked up to him and they touched noses for a while, then the deer allowed him to sniff at her (him? it had no antlers and appeared full grown) for a minute before some kids shouted on the other side of the park and startled the deer into running away.

Wow, they touched noses? My dog tries to chase (and eventually kill, but not eat, because he’s well fed) every non-dog and non-person that sets foot on the property. So while he’s been wildly successful with groundhogs, raccoons, and rabbits, he once tried to down a deer. The deer kicked him square in the nose, and Weezy has put as much distance between himself and any deer on the property every since.

He also used to be afraid of the treadmill, but we used some of Caesar Milan’s techniques to reduce it to mild annoyance.

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