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Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.

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.

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.

Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

In modern times, dogs may be pampered, but historically, a dog's life wasn't much to bark about. Hence a dog's chance is a small chance.

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.