why does my dog HATE baloons?!!?
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at
9:33 am
i brought home a baloon today that said happy birthday, let my pit bull outside went upstairs and heard her barking and a bunch of banging around. i went downstairs to find that she was jumping on the bar stools, from couch to couch, on the counter, and on the table barking at the baloon. she was growling and acting vey weird. does anyone know why dogs do this? ive had previous dogs that bark at them but none have gone to this extent. also she barks and goes nuts at brooms, screen doors, and colored people.
Pit bulls are nuts. Sorry.
Maybe she had a bad experience with one popping and really hurting her ears in the past.
Has she had a bad experience with any of the other things you mentioned?
It could be that someone popped one very close to her when she was a pup and she remembers.
Other thing is if it’s the rubber type of balloon, some dogs hate the smell.
It’s this weird thing that’s FLOATING! It smells weird, it looks weird, and its FLOATING! Try starting her off with some small ones that aren’t filled much and have treats on them, then slowly get bigger and more filled balloons and always give her treats when she sees them and isn’t barking at them.. she will soon associate balloons with good things.
Balloons seem to bother most dogs a lot. I’m not sure why– it’s probably a combination of the smell and the strange way light reflects from them and refracts through them, and the odd sound they make when they strike something.
It’s also true, though, that many pit bulls go wild at all kinds of things that don’t bother other dogs. They have a short fuse.
All dogs do this for some reason they have a sense to hate baloons all my dogs do for some reason.
ur dog is a racist lol jk she probably has a fear to them because she is not used to it
It sounds like your dog has had negative experiences with balloons, brooms, screen doors and African American people, or they might just be foreign to her and she fears them. Try training her to get use to these things then she will act okay around them.
Ok this seems like many separate issues. For starters, dogs who have not grown up around dark skinned people, often find them disconcerting. If you could get her to actually make friends with a few, it would help. It isn’t a form of prejudice as some people seem to like to think but simply a case of the dark skin hiding a person’s facial features and expressions. Many a dog hates a person wearing a ski mask for the same reason.Gradually introducing her to people like that will often fix the issue. If this is the first time she has seen a balloon perhaps the floating "head" seems a bit odd. but it would seem to me that she has a problem with strange moving objects. Many dogs will shy away from moving inanimate objects, yours goes nutty. Try getting her to "re see" these things in a calm rational manner. For instance, get the dog to come over to you while you are simply sitting with the broom within reach, not moving. Pet her, Move the broom slightly. If she starts barking, set it down. Tell her "NO!" get her to calm down, move broom again. Every time she over reacts, lean the broom back against the wall and stop the dog. Praise her when she does well. Eventually, you should be able to get her to see the broom as just a thing. I got my puppy so used to the broom, I can pet her with it, when she used to bark at it until she saw it as a good thing.
Maybe there’s something about these things that threatens them, but colored people? That’s odd.