What is your Boxer afraid of?

[El Duke]

My son Duke is scared of skateboarders. Everytime they go by he hides behind me or my boyfriend. One time, the three of us were outside and a boy rode by very fast on his skateboard and all we saw was Duke running away as fast as he could trying to get inside the house. The only problem was the security door was not open and he ran into it. Poor Thing.

 

[layla'smommy]

Well, how do I put this....everything. Well, I suppose that's a bit of an exaggeration now. It wasn't when we first adopted her though. Everything from cupboards to linoleum to toilets scared our little girl. Now her fear is basically focused on ANYTHING and EVERYTHING NOVEL...especially people she doesn't know. That's the big one, and definately the hardest for us to help her overcome.

Layla is a rescue and she is a very timid and anxious little thing. We are working very hard to habituate her to life in general, and slowly but surely she's coming around, but my oh my, it is hard work and it is so sad to think of the way she's feeling inside. I hope one day she will be truely fear-free

Jenni & Layla

 

[Memphis'sMom]

New phobia

I posted earlier that Memphis is afraid of plastic bags...well for Valentine's Day my boyfriend got me flowers with 2 balloons. I tied them to one of the chairs in my kitchen....well everytime Memphis catches them out of the corner of her eye, she hunches down and in a very low tone...growls at them!!! It is sooo funny!!! I tried to bring the balloons to her to show her that they wouldn't hurt her, but she ran to daddy and hid:rolleyes:

Gina

 

[harley27]

Originally posted by tcmhammer
My oldest boy is scared of balloons. I cant figure out why but we cant even bring a balloon in the house with out him running off like a little baby. He's not scared of anything else that I know of. In fact he acts like he is not scared of anything most of the time. But dont let him see a balloon he just freaks.

harley is also afraid of balloons

he barks and growls at them for hours. drove us all nuts one morning. we thought he was just playing, so we picked one up and tossed it at him, and he ran and hid under the table.

he always runs to the for sale signs on the house and barks at the balloons there, keeping his distance. he has to go out on a leash because he wont relieve himself otherwise, hes too busy barking

 

[BoxerLoverNC]

Originally posted by sashamygirl
im not for sure if sasha is afraid of anything she likes the blow dryer and she chases the vacuum cleaner goes crazy after it but i actually dont think she fears anything or if so havent notice it but i do live by a bif field and i did notice the other day there was deer out and sheran on the porch and iv never seen her hair on her back up but it was but dont know if it was just new or she was scared but we sit and watched them Jenn and Sasha

My Shayna chases the vacume and when i dry my daughters hair she barks and tries to bite the hairdryer! But my Micah's hair stands up on end at least one time a day at whatever gets jumpy. sometimes it's the wind!

 

[9OfThem]

well lets see its hard for me to say my adult male lets talk about him his name is bruno hes afraid of anything that falls down you cant drop anything around him he gets upset or if he comes in a room and theres somthing new he gets scared my husband says he scared of unleveled food in his bowl before he eats he uses his nose to level it out and sure enough when hes done eating he levels it out we have other boxers and if he heres them eating he runs in there waits till there done and levels the food back out me and my family think its just the funniest thing :p

 

[dpeoples]

My Oliver is afraid of car horns! :confused:

 

[woodpecker47]

my oldest effie is scared of many things like the vaccum, the dark, being picked up, and jumping in and out of the truck. i rescued her so i dont really know if past experences have any thing to do with this. zoe is afraid of the dark she gets spooked really easy and brutis i dont know yet he is only 5 months but ill keep you posted in the future.:cool:

 

[luvmypup]

Tucker is mortified of the vacuum cleaner. Last time I vacuumed with him in the house, he dragged a blanket with him and hid in the furthest most spot in the houseand shook. Now I have hubby walk him everytime I clean.

 

[JillE24]

This is just too funny. I just got the BF a stuffed monkey for V-Day. It has crazy fur/hair, vibrates & makes a loud noise when you touch it's hand. Boy is Laila afraid of that thing. He sat it on the floor & she wouldn't even walk near it.

She's also afraid of the tape measure. I have no idea why. Whenever I try to measure anything, including her, she takes off running. She, like many others, also barks like crazy at the broom, vacumn & hairdryer, but I don't think she's afraid of them.

Jill:p