Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.
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Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.
The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.
When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.
What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.
I have never met a dog I couldn't help; however, I have met humans who weren't willing to change.
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite - shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on.
When we are fearful and worried all the time, we are living as if we don't believe that we have a strong and able Shepherd who is tenderhearted toward us, who only leads us to good places, who protects us and lovingly watches over us.
I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.
I'm afraid of animals.
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