September 19th, 2006
weird dog
Himself is a funny guy. He is totally unfazed by the super-loud neighbors (I should say “was” since those guys are long moved out). He barely reacts to the train going by. He doesn’t seem to mind how loud our floors are (squeaky AND clicky-clacky from shoes).
But one thing he does freak out about: whenever I go into the lower cabinets to get my big saute pan out, he runs out of the kitchen. And then he stands about four feet out of the kitchen, watching me, while I pull out the pan (or lid or whatever). I don’t know if it’s the noise, but he doesn’t seem to react until the pans make noise, not when I just open the cabinet door.
So he’s a strange fellow, Himself is. Absolutely adorable. But a strange fellow.
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I hate to ask, but where did you get him again? If he was a pound puppy, it may be possible that he was formerly abused, and your reaching into the clanky cubpoard may remind him of that. Never know.
But my dog is terrified of the vacuum. It doesn’t even need to be on. I have to make sure to put it in the closet when I’m done, because she hates it. Strange.
No, not a pound puppy; rehomed from a loving (if slightly attention deficient) home. He doesn’t like the vacuum, either, actually.
I agree with Nye, your dog is definitively showing conditioned behavior, reacting to a stimulus that must bring bad memories for him to run away like that. Who knows what might have happened to him.
Well, he definitely hates fireworks, so maybe he had a bad experience with fireworks. And maybe it’s that loud, metallic, clanky noise that freaks him out. But he doesn’t bark when I go into the cupboard, he just scampers into the hallway and watches me. And then he comes right back.