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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 07:43 PM
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What's your pet's favorite threat?
My parrot HATES anything that's dark brown. Brown boxes = terror. Wearing brown = terror. Even from 20 feet away the poor thing will go bonkers if it sees the color.

The parrot also hates bright day-glo yellow, orange, and pink for some reason. :crazy:

What's your pet's favorite threat?
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Theres-a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 07:45 PM
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1. Cage cleaning day
They finally have everything just how they like it ,and I come mess it all up and they can't find anything.
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CelticWinter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 07:46 PM
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2. my lab doesnt like
thunder storms he hides when they start----nothing seems to bother the cats unless its a dirty kitty box
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 07:48 PM
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3. My dog is afraid of stairs.
Not entirely sure why.
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DemGirl7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 08:07 PM
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8. One of my sister's dogs is afraid of stairs too
He just refuses to go up them, and has to be carried up, and it's not fun, because he isn't a light weight.
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 08:20 PM
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11. I guess I'm glad it's not just my dog
Ours is pretty hefty too--a lab. When we say the word "stairs" he hides in a corner. He's a freak.
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 07:48 PM
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4. Your parrot must have been traumatized by something brown!
Maybe a UPS man?

My kitty is terrified of the outdoors. She'll only go about 1 foot from the door, and then turn around in panic.
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 07:50 PM
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5. Oh, god, what isn't? The pizza man knocking. The cat deterrents
going off (motion sensors hooked up to compressed air - WHAT AN INVENTION!). The rip of velcro.

Another cat hissing.

A fly taking off from the wall! That sets off a true cat bomb, because they all scatter, then half of them come back to chase it.

HT - lord bless you, I hope you never bring your groceries home in paper. All those rattly brown bags....
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tinfoilinfor2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 07:51 PM
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6. Our favorite cat who went to kitty heaven in January after 13 years
was scared to death of plastic grocery bags after having wrapped one around his foot one time. My funniest memory is watching him run around the house with the bag hooked up to his foot and inflating bigger and bigger with each running step...like a huge parachute following him and getter bigger the faster he tried to run away from it.

And scorpions. He was stung by a scorpion as a kitty and we always knew when a scorpion was in the house because he would flatten himself to the ground and slither under the bed.
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DemGirl7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 07:58 PM
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7. My dog is afraid of things you can blow up
Edited on Tue Aug-02-05 08:00 PM by DemGirl7
like balloons, bubble gum bubbles, anything like that, he just runs away me as fast as he can, and hides.:scared: :scared:
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I Know How To Do it Donating Member (499 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 08:10 PM
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9. My Pet Cat runs when I put on an oven mitt.
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 08:12 PM
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10. the vacuum cleaner
The cats go running when I take it out of the closet.

They don't like my lightsaber either. :)
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 08:21 PM
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12. Twitch was afraid of the front door, the back door, and open
windows. Anything that lead out of the house. My son rescued her off the back porch, and she'd never go near an egress after.
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