Grapes can quickly cause kidney failure in dogs. Smart dog.
FYI
Per the Merck Veterinary Manual: " In general, more than one grape or raisin per 4.5 kg (10 pounds) of body weight may contain enough tartaric acid to pose a risk for kidney injury in dogs."
My dog ate 50 or so raisins (approx 100 grams by package weight) and it didn’t even disrupt his shits. The fear mongering on the internet had me ready to put him down.
TFW you can’t tell the difference between fear mongering and cautionary advice.
Also kidney damage isn’t going to do a whole lot to acute digestive health
I’ve read that some dogs are more tolerant, and some die from a single grape.
The puppy that lives with me, a yellow lab, is the property of a guide dog org. I host and do basic training for a year.
She’s 3 1/2 months old, and I haven’t seen anything that terrifies her. Startle? Yes, but actual fear? Not really. She doesn’t enjoy thunder, but doesn’t cower in a corner. She hasn’t experienced fireworks yet, but I’m planning to go to the next event with fireworks nearby, and stay at a distance, do that she can acclimate herself.
The org breeds for intelligence and even temperament, which doesn’t hurt.
Also, I make a point of exposing her to as many stimuli as possible while being extremely and obviously, to her, protective, so that she is introduced to things while feeling safe.
You fool
Now I know how to get past your dog
For years I have been trying to steal your most prized posessions, only to be foiled by that beast over and over again
No longer, for now I have grapes!
Nooooooooo!!!
the other guy said it, Grapes are deadly to dogs
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
That is hilarious
Not when you have to poop around her
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
Some Asians don’t have the gene that makes sweat smell. This probably makes them smell strange to a dog’s nose. My dog is just very cautious with smokers; he treats them with extreme prejudice.
As far as I can tell my Huskie randomly decides to be scared of anything in existence for 0.5 seconds at a time and then is fine with whatever it is. She was scared of the basement for the first nine months or so that we had her.
I’m very sad that my Husky/Heeler has lost his hearing, but at the same time he is not afraid of thunder in the same way anymore… So there’s a silver lining. I have a picture of him hiding in the dryer during a storm, and many in the bathtub.
Edit: healer
My wife loves having her dog for protection when I’m not home. The dog that is afraid of beeps and squeaks, clacks and cracks, bumps and thumps, and most importantly, toots.
At least they’re in it together, though!
Things that move and things that don’t move
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.
The balloon thing is probably common, at least every dog I’ve lived with has been scared of them. I think it has to do with the way they move around, unnaturally floating, bobbing with the breeze. It’s unlike any creature found in nature. It’s almost ghostly.
Without an understanding that it’s just some latex filled with air, I get why they’d set off an animals “spooky” alarm.
And they pop!
Though she was cool with it until image went for a sniff and got zapped. I wouldn’t say it was all that strong (loud enough to be heard but it was still a balloon, right?)
After that there was no trusting it.
Men taller than me. He equates height with threat. He has no problem with short dudes and women or kids.
Not sure why but he is a rescue from a puppy mill, so he has more than a few weird habits due to his trauma.
Mine was a puppy mill breeder for 6 years and she’s afraid of everything but slowly getting more relaxed. After two years, my son can pick her up without getting peed on (most of the time).
Her biggest trigger is hearing seat belts unclick. Her screeching is why I can’t leave her alone so she comes everywhere with me. My car has dog mode so she’s at 70F. But she hears that click and she’s screeching at over 100 db. Pretty loud for a 14 lb dog.
Yeah. :(
Mine loves car rides but gets motion sick in the car for similar reasons.
Huh, that might explain why some dogs seem to hate me in particular…
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!
My dog is scared of the wind. Specifically the draft, so when it’s windy outside he pushes up against me.
Your dog is a Slav, and protecting you from every disease imaginable
Aww, I love that. I’m not familiar with the mythology you’re referring to though.
He is a husky mix actually so his origins is from that area, but he was born in Ireland. Got him from a rescue.
I think that there were some myths about winds carrying evil spirits, but draft (promaja) is nowadays known to be the cause of stiff joints and muscles, numbness, and pain. It’s so prevalent in the Balkans that non-Slavs believe in it as well.
And I can tell you from personal experience, it’s definitely true. Let’s say it’s very hot, you open up two windows to create a draft in order to cool down, and then the next day you wake up with so much back pain that you can barely move - you were killed by promaja.
I’ve a close friend who is Slavic, and also hates drafts, to the point that they can’t stand AC. So I can believe this!
Women wearing burkas frequently trigger a fight-or-flight response.
Also, the wind blowing a door or window shut - that shit is straight up witchcraft!
Must be an English bulldog
(You know, cause of how racists in the UK display England’s flag specifically)
EDIT: What? They really do. Also, for real, this dude mentions women in burkas scare his dog and nobody has any questions? Do you see that everyday? Islamophobic dogs? 😂 Fuck off with your downvotes. You’re the weird ones. What’s next? Antisemitic cats? Ableist ducks? I’m calling animal control
Hey it could be a french bulldog too.
Not sure about scared, but strongly dislikes stepping on metal. Will walk around or jump over manhole covers when on a walk for example.
Metal hot
