What a Fraidycat.....

[Sheryl]

I was walking Lyla down the track and she had her head down sniffing the verge when she suddenly looked up and saw a huge puddle.  She did an impression of a Harrier jump jet and took off vertically!  It is every single puddle too.  Crazy dog........

[Pauline T]

Oh bless, a proper lady mustn't get her feet wet 
Now Charlie would just run straight in regardless. 

[minimoo]

They are so funny Bailey is a wuss too, he saw a blue bottle on the floor on its back and he lay down about 10 inches away watching it, he wouldnt get any closer and you could see he was poised to flee  , Ella came up grabbed it and it must have buzzed as she spit it out and sat watching it, the pup Milo then came to see waht all the fuss was about and picked it up ate it and ambled off, it was Sooo funny but Bailey really is a sensitive little soul , i had Kizzy who would NEVER deem to step in a puddle cause she was a laydee , the rest of my hounds are hoooligans who,love to get in puddles and today they found a dead porpoise and just rolled all over it and evil Ella was eating chunks of it and i know its been on the beach for at least a week 

[Linda B]

Sophie doesn't like the charity collection bags that are left out and will do a funny little crab walk around them and bark at the same time  Wheelie bins don't bother her as they provide lots of good sniffs!

[Sheryl]

It's funny is it...things that should scare them don't and things that shouldn't...do!

[elaine.e]

Our DVD player is on a shelf under the television and at spaniel eye level. Louis is absolutely terrified when the little drawer slides open to enable a DVD to be put in or taken out and slinks out of the room, tummy nearly touching the ground

He loves puddles but ran into some squelchy, clingy mud recently and was very frightened. Hasn't stopped him from going in other mud though

[Sheryl]

So there is scarey mud and ok mud?!

[elaine.e]

So there is scarey mud and ok mud?!

In the weird and peculiar world that Louis lives in I think there must be

I think he probably got stuck in the scarey mud for a short while and got himself in a panic. He's a very odd little dog

[Sheryl]

The odd ones are the best!

[bluegirl]

Recently there has been a young uni student who's doing an art course who's been putting all sorts of unusual things in our woods.  One day I noticed there was a few new things so I went to have a closer look. The 3 girls ran straight past it all, but Logan nearly collapsed on the spot in fear. He was running then he suddenly noticed something to his right from the corner of his eye I presume. It was an armchair tucked between two trees with allsorts of flowers and leaves on it. Well he yelped so loudly I thought he'd hurt himself, he jumped to the left like a gazelle and he just barked and barked with his feet firmly planted in one place and his neck stretched out towards the offending object. The girls on the other hand just went straight up to it and had a sniff and just wondered off.

[elaine.e]

Slightly off topic as this is about a horse, but it still makes me chuckle when I think about it.

I know a racehorse called Desailly (Desmond to his friends), a huge, strong and successful steeplechaser. He's a giant of a horse and when he was racing he was magnificent to watch, so powerful and courageous.

His trainer held an open day in the yard one year and the day before some portaloos arrived. Two of them were set up just outside the barn in which Desmond was stabled. Desmond was tacked up and ready to go out for his morning exercise as usual but when his stable girl led him out and he saw the Portaloos he nearly fell over in fright, dragged his stable girl back into the barn and refused to come out . He had to be led out of the other end of the barn every morning until the terrifying Portaloos were taken away.

Desmond is now 18 years old and living a very happy and active life with one of the ladies who owned him during his racing career. I see him now and again and he doesn't look anywhere near his age

[Sheryl]

Well today on our walk down the track the puddles seem to have taken a backseat in the fright stakes by...............dock leaves! . It makes for a very, very long walk!

[Linda B]

Yesterday Sophie was frightened by a tulip petal  strange thing is it had been laying there for several days and she has been passed it and walked over it loads of times, but suddenly it became this scary thing 

Emma was standing on the decking yesterday when a squirrel leapt off the garage roof and landed about three feet from her  I don't know who was the most startled  The squirrel then tore off down the garden with Emma in hot pursuit, luckily the squirrel got away.

[Holly Berry]

Friends of ours have a westie who is afraid of white feathers,other colours he's ok with 

[KellyT]

well I have most recently added dandelion leaves to the list of things Hazel is scared by .. the particular offending dandelion leaf is in the section of the garden that the dogs aren't allowed in without supervision.  Hazel can see through the picket fence into this area and there it was, bold as brass, standing upright instead of laying flat.  Well, Hazel did a little woof at it, then scooted backwards with her tail between her legs, then ran forwards and woofed again, before tearing back up onto the patio and hiding in the conservatory...