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My golden lab (about half a yr old) is terrified of vaccums. And it seems like all dogs suffer this fear too. Any thoughts? :D

It's not irrational at all. No animal can survive very long in a vacuum. It's why we have space suits, DUH.

Actually my dog (miniature pinscher) follows me around while I vaccum.

My kids play the "vacuum game" where I chase them with the vacuum and they scream and run, my dog doesn't understand and thinks I am trying to hurt them or that they really are scared, so he doesn't like the vacuum, I have to put him out when I do it, and when he is in I have to hide the vacuum or he stares at it or worse tries to knock it over to keep it from "getting the kids" :p

My dog Loves the vacuum. Literally. He humped it! :p

Heh, mom's dog just stares at it really curiously, wondering why it's eating up food that's supposed to be HIS!

I had a Newfoundland dog that loved being vacuumed (just don't vacuum around the ears and everyone gets along just fine). It takes them a few times to get used to it. Humans are pretty used to having what little senses they have overloaded. Dogs have really good hearing, so to them the vacuum is a bit like standing next to a huge speaker at a rock concert.

Let's see it from the dog's point of view:
there's a big thing near you. It eats anything on the floor. It's noisiness is deafening. You have no idea about what it is or what it wants. It's coming closer. You are naturally programmed to live in a world where things that get close to you sometimes kill you. the human world is still like a foreign country to you.

I think with dogs it's probably the high pitched sound.

We had a cat that totally ignored the vacuum until a vacuum salesman said, "With this attachment you can vacuum all the loose hair from your cat." Well, we tried it. That cat would hide every time the vacuum came out.

My hedgehog owns dogs.

All my dogs hated vacuums - probably because of the loud growling noise and the threatening moves.

One of my cats loved the vacuum - every time I got it out, he'd lie belly up and I'd vacuum him.

My dog weighs 90 pounds and is quite boisterous; but not only is it mildly afraid of the vaccum, it is horribly afraid of my box turtles.

dogs abhor a vacuum.

My golden lab (about half a yr old) is terrified of vaccums. And it seems like all dogs suffer this fear too. Any thoughts? :D
My spaniel/golden retriever mix doesn't like the noise, so she goes into another room. My two cats, however, hit all four walls and hide on the chanidiler! :D

dogs abhor a vacuum.
Hmm. Is that why most dog food sucks?

Hmm. Is that why most dog food sucks?

... you've eaten dog food? :p

... you've eaten dog food? :p
hey when I was about 5 my cousin paid me $5 to eat a dog biscuit, so I did. I figured it had food I ate in it anyway (wheat, corn, ect.) and that afternoon I got to walk to the store and get a Coke and 4 cookies and still had money for doughnuts at church and she was miserable the rest of the week.

Same goes for our dog... Dogs are simply stupid as bricks, that's why. :rolleyes:
Our cats don't give a damn :D

My old german sheppard, great dog, went berserk on the vacuum anytime I tried to use it. On several occassions we found the closet door open and the vacuum cleaner on the floor torn apart. Damn throat cancer, I miss him.

My ex's Rott was totally terrified of the vacumn. It was funny seeing 110 pound dog knock over furniture to get out of the same room as the vacumn.

Same goes for our dog... Dogs are simply stupid as bricks, that's why. :rolleyes:
Our cats don't give a damn :D

Is that why three cats jumped into a yard of two german sheppards known for attacking tresspassers?

Damn they're intellegent little things.

My dog, a Jack Russell mix, is definitely not scared of the vacuum. More like he wants to kill it. Every time I get the vacuum out I have to put him in his crate, otherwise he comes along with me and barks and bites at it as I'm vacuuming. It doesn't even have to be turned on. Once I take it out of the closet, he goes into attack mode.

I don't know firsthand but I'm pretty sure most dogs are scared of vacuums. My cat on the other hand, is completely fearless. She just sits there as I vacuum closeby and moves over a tad if I need to get that space.

When I was growing up we had a rather large German Shepard, and she would attack the vacuum. I guess she was convinced it was going to "get" us. We had to lock her in a back room if we wanted to vacuum, and she'd go nuts the entire time, barking and trying to get out and save us from the dreaded vacuum.

When I was growing up we had a rather large German Shepard, and she would attack the vacuum. I guess she was convinced it was going to "get" us. We had to lock her in a back room if we wanted to vacuum, and she'd go nuts the entire time, barking and trying to get out and save us from the dreaded vacuum.
How incredibly loyal. She would be handy to have when Cyborgs finally decide to invade our planet.

My cat is scared shitless of the old piece of crap vaccuum that just won't die... :p she hides in my room when it comes out because only I clean my room...

Yes -- vacuums and bad weather.

Poor little Mollie saunters off to the bathroom and sits between the toilet and the shower whenever there's a storm. She sits there and just shakes.

Yeah I run away in terror whenever someone starts...
:eek: Oh wait, you asked about the dog, didn't you.
*Runs away from thread in terror*

"Does your dog have an irrational fear of vaccums like mine?"

I don't know. What sort of vacume do you have? Mine is mostly afraid of Hoovers for some reason. :D

"Does your dog have an irrational fear of vaccums like mine?"

I don't know. What sort of vacume do you have? Mine is mostly afraid of Hoovers for some reason. :D
They joked about that on Family Guy yesterday :)

They joked about that on Family Guy yesterday :)
They have good taste. ;)

maybe they could test guard dogs with vacuums - if they run away, they are cowardly, and if they attack they are brave.

They have good taste. ;)
Family Guy have good taste? No. No way. But they are funny ;)

*lets dog sniff vacume tube*
*turns vacume on*

Where'd doggy go?

My golden lab (about half a yr old) is terrified of vacuums. And it seems like all dogs suffer this fear too. Any thoughts? :D

Oh, yes. Mine cowers with fear at the very sight of it. Also, the fear of a vacuum cleaner is not actually a 'fear' but a 'phobia'. If you listen to Steven Fry you will know that a phobia is something people fear that cannot hurt them whereas a fear can. So fear of 'flying' is a phobia - aerophobia - and fear of crashing is a fear.:eek:

Oh, yes. Mine cowers with fear at the very sight of it. Also, the fear of a vacuum cleaner is not actually a 'fear' but a 'phobia'. If you listen to Steven Fry you will know that a phobia is something people fear that cannot hurt them whereas a fear can. So fear of 'flying' is a phobia - aerophobia - and fear of crashing is a fear.:eek:
Just one more reason for not taking drugs! :D