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varethane
2008-11-28 07:54 am UTC (link)

Walking a dog isn't as much a problem with me, so much as is getting over whatever irrational fear I have of them. (Overwhelmed by dogs is a good way to put it...)

You know though, I think it might be true about female dogs. Another friend of mine has a medium-sized dog of no discernible breed (there may or may not be some whippet in there), who is one of the few dogs that I'm not wary around. She lives with a ferret, and they get along kind of hilariously.

People come through the park I work at sometimes with HUGE dogs, Rottweilers and Great Danes and Dalmatians and things of that like (as well as tiny dogs like teacup poodles)... sometimes people I'm with (most of my friends do not share my neuroses) will go up and exclaim over them or ask to pet them or something, but I can never bring myself to get within a few meters of strange dogs. XD;

_{_{_{Holy crap though, one time someone came through with two MASSIVE shaggy dogs whose breed I don't know... they stood almost as tall as their owner when down on all fours. Their legs must have been longer than mine. They barely even looked like dogs from a distance, more like some sort of strange hairy elephant-creatures on leashes walking sedately along the path... just crazy.}}}

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napalmnacey
2008-11-29 12:54 am UTC (link)

My sister has the same problem, but that's because she was a tiny little girl and she'd had a few big dogs be horrible to her. So she likes dogs, she just doesn't really know how to interact with them, I don't think. Has that immediate fear reaction, which immediately puts some dogs on edge. They know if you're afraid, and they're kinda like kids - they need the big person to be unafraid and in control.

It's why I like cats. It's hard to go wrong in owning a cat.

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