Why are dogs scared of knives ?

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A few years ago I was between houses and moved in with a guy called mark.

I was there for around 5 weeks and caught him holding a lighter to my dogs face (It did not end well for him) and my dog lost a few whiskers

I moved into my new home and noticed that every time I took a knife out of the draw she backed off, I have never given her any reason to be scared of a knife, or any other weapon so mark was obviously the reason she was scared.

So moving on a few years, I am now in a house with the same dog + my gf's dog, My dog seems to have gotten over what ever it was that scared her of knives, but this puppy (My gf's pup) always backs out of the kitchen whenever I take a knife out of the draw... any ideas ?

Neither one of us has given her reason to be scared of a knife, it just seems like a natural reaction

What gives ?

(Don't blame the gf please ;) she is 100% an animal lover, she doesn't even pull a knife on me when I am being a **BEEP** ;) )

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Azusa

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A few years ago I was between houses and moved in with a guy called mark.

I was there for around 5 weeks and caught him holding a lighter to my dogs face (It did not end well for him) and my dog lost a few whiskers

I moved into my new home and noticed that every time I took a knife out of the draw she backed off, I have never given her any reason to be scared of a knife, or any other weapon so mark was obviously the reason she was scared.

So moving on a few years, I am now in a house with the same dog + my gf's dog, My dog seems to have gotten over what ever it was that scared her of knives, but this puppy (My gf's pup) always backs out of the kitchen whenever I take a knife out of the draw... any ideas ?

Neither one of us has given her reason to be scared of a knife, it just seems like a natural reaction

What gives ?

(Don't blame the gf please ;) she is 100% an animal lover, she doesn't even pull a knife on me when I am being a **BEEP** ;) )

If they're both male have they ever seen either of you cutting sausages?

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firey

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Cheers for the replies,

So what you're saying is dogs who are scared of something have a reason to be ?

So in other words, someone has scared the pup with a knife at some point ?

That's my guess. Though dogs are scared of many things for no reasons.. Trash Cans, doors that don't open all the way, fireworks, etc.

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andrewbares

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Maybe it's the way you're puling the knife out. Do you pull it out fast and suddenly? Do you hold it with a different tension in your body?

Dogs pick up on the very slightest body language. If you're unsure about anything, they can often tell.

Try pulling out a water bottle like you did a knife and see what happens.

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To answer your question, no you don't have to do anything to a dog to make it afraid of a particular object. We've had many dogs over the years in our family and each one gets scared of random stuff (just to be clear we've never hit our dogs in any way). Sometimes yes, you can link it to some action, for example one of our dogs was snooping in the pantry (treats are in there), and he knocked over the broom which made quite the racket. Ever since then he's been afraid of them and won't go near them if he sees a broom.

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Perhaps because that pup was abused with a knife before and thus is traumatised. Perhaps someone slashed or stabled it with a knife. It's animal nature to be scared of something that you experienced before and will try to avoid it in future. Just like us.

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