[NAGDU] Fear of skateboards

[Becky Frankeberger]

Carmella
, by chance did the sweet pup have a senior blood panel. Usually vets
recommend this at seven years old. If so, you may want to ask the vet to run
a thyroid on her. If the pup has any other thyroid related symptoms bring
this up to the vet. 

I used to go to the vet if odd things come up. The dog has been fine with x
noise, then suddenly the pup is consistently afraid of thunder, fire works,
car back firing, people wearing hats, heck it could be anything the dog
suddenly reacts negatively to. 

Becky dog less in Seattle
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Subject: [NAGDU] Fear of skateboards

My  guide dog was startled by a skateboarder  one morning and has  become
increasingly  anxious when she  sees  people  riding (or even carrying)
skateboards. There  are a group of guys who  come to the  parking lot of a
building across the street from where we live  to skateboard  every  Sat.
and Sun.  They have been doing this for years and she has seen them riding
around and jumping  plenty of times. Now, she  gets  nervous and distracted
when she sees them or if we encounter other skateboarders while on walks. We
live near a university so  this happens more  often than it might
otherwise.  My husband and I are trying to  get her comfortable with them
again, at a distance and using treats.  She is really weirded out, though. I
would appreciate anyone's advice on how you might approach this or hearing
about experiences with your dogs and skateboards. I don't know how common
this might be.  Its always amazing how  years of  neutral (or even positive)
experiences  with something can seemingly be wiped out by one negative
experience.  My dog was somewhat sensitive to   things that looked weird to
her when I  first got her.  She seemed to   get past that fora few years.
This started to happen again  during the past year. She just turned eight.
I'm worried that this is going to start happening more often with more
things.                 

Thanks,
Carmella

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