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This is a great topic, my Dobe has is in this phase right now, its good to know how to handle it. I too had a shopping bag incident in the park yesterday the wind blew it against a chain link fence about 100 feet away and scared the crap out of him, same thing for a fire hydrant with a cover on it. I have also found the Micheal Ellis' environmental stress work helps (covered in the food Dvd, and i think some of the streaming video) if you can catch him before he gets too focused on thing stressing him out. I would try to describe but i wouldn't do it justice.
good luck
Rob
P.S jogging shoulder pad guy seems legitimately frightening
All these chilling puppy experiences have an uncanny similarity to the boogy men/"bears"/trashcans/mailboxes/etc/etc that green horses see, or just any horse on a bad day.
It's much more exciting if you are riding a large animal that's freaking out than it is if you are holding the end of a leash with a dog freaking out on the other end of it.
These pups must be going through a prey (as in, they ARE the prey) stage.
We have a potty area in the back yard. When Hans was younger we used to take him out there on a leash until he learned that was the only place he was supposed to go. One night when he was about the age of your dog his hackles went up and he started barking at his shadow against the fence.
The incident where he started growling at the door reminds me of a Far Side cartoon. A lady is sitting in her chair. One dog turns to the other and says something like "Watch this. I'm just going to stare at the closet door, growling." Your dog may have a sense of humor
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Yes, Debbie, It is sooo much more fun to have horses that spook. Mine has always been one. 180s were a part of everyday life. Good thing that when he was on a x-country course he was very single minded & focused on jumping. It was the trail rides that he was a jerk. Ha,ha.
I have also had a dog that was just as bad. Not really sure which one was worse to deal with on a daily basis. But I think the dog actually was the worse one. LOL
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