That peanut butter with huge chunks of cherries looks AWESOME. I haven’t had a GM in ages.. craving one now.

I don’t really have any weird phobias, but I do get super scared before I try new things. The first day I was going to go to Bikram, I started freaking out and actually turned white while I was thinking about it because I was so scared. The good part about that is it didn’t end up being nearly as bad as I was expecting and now I’m addicted!

Yummo cherry PB! The things you can buy nowadays…I tell ya!

My weird phobia or “issue” if you will is ice. Can’t touch it, it just makes me cringe. Can’t think about it, can barely ice skate. But I love having ice in ALL of my drinks so it is an odd tug of war over here. 🙂

Dogs are sooooo funny! I love hearing stories about yours, keep it up 🙂

Oh, poor James! My dog is sometimes that way with grates, but not always… I always have to be on my guard with him, though, as for no apparent reason (to me), something will freak him out, and he’ll try to pull into the road to get away from it. As he’s a strong Collie-cross, I need to have a good grip on his lead! 🙂

I share James’s fear of grates. My leg fell through one as a kid and I still avoid them as much as possible. I also fear people looking in windows (car windows, house windows) at me.

I used to have a phobia where I held my breath every time I passed a cemetary. But now I run by cemetaries so that’s not an option unless I want to join them (morbid humor, sorry)!

I am DEATHLY afraid of meteors. There was a time once when I saw that I thought to be a world-ending fireball flying through the sky while I was driving. I slammed on my breaks in the middle of an intersection and started screaming.

The fireball went out before it hit the ground. I guess it was a small one that burned up in the atmosphere.

But it looked HUGE to me and ever since then, I’ve had a serious issue with them. I know what all of the “threatening” ones are in outerspace, and the odds of each one colliding with Earth.

I know its totaly unreasonable, but I also don’t understand how more people aren’t afraid!

People tell me that they are terrified of tornados and things like that, but you they are so localized. If you see one in the distance, you can just drive the other way.

No so with a meteor!

Okay I’ll stop now.

I wouldn’t call my phobias little or weird–at least not for a girl. I’m horribly afraid of cockroaches and mice. (And some other bugs and rodents in there.)

This is my first time visiting your blog and I must say that your pup is absolutely precious! And yeah it’s always hard to figure out why dogs develop phobias like that… so weird. I highly recommend reading the books written by “the dog whisperer” (can’t remember his name, Carlos something?). Anywho, applying the principles of his books has completely changed my dog’s behavior (for the better) and has made our dog-human relationship soooo much better.

I am totally afraid of grates/sewer drains etc. I get uneasy when I walk by them. Totally not kidding.

Here’s why: http://noheroicsplease.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/balloon1.jpg

Oh, & if you haven’t seen that movie? Don’t. (at least not if you have a clown phobia)

I used to be very phobic about riding in elevators, but I’ve been forced to get over that some since I work in downtown Chicago and taking the stairs to my office isn’t an option. (I’m only on the 11th floor, but the staircases are locked except in emergency situations.) I still get very anxious in elevators, but I’ll ride in them.

My other major phobia is kind of a weird one. I’m absolutely terrified by being pregnant and childbirth – like to the point where I actually don’t want to have children because I don’t want to be pregnant and give birth.

I can’t think of any weird fears I have now…used to have an irrational fear of choking. It made eating annoying!

Your dogs are SO funny!

she’s also currently barking at the stationary lawnmower in the garage, so i guess that is menancing her right now, too.

I saw a neighbor’s house burn down as a kid, and I was so scared of fire that I couldn’t light a MATCH or go near candles into my 20s! Totally phobic.

Then I joined the Peace Corps, though, and have to light my stove and candles with a match, so I got over it. It was hard though, and it took 22 years. Embarrassing!!!

my dog does the same thing! she’s rescued from the streets so i’ll never know where it came from. but it’s so embarrassing at times. i look like such a mean pet owner that is dragging a dog that doesn’t appear to want to be near me!

I have OCD so there are many phobias. It is so funny because my family doesn’t even notice them anymore, I guess it is just part of who I am.

I am TERRIFIED of expired food. Strange I kno! I am worried that I will eat it w/o knowing!

I have a bit of a horse phobia. Just that they are so big and so dumb…I don’t trust them! Funny though because my little sis is an avid horse enthusiast!

I have been reading about the Vega smoothie. I just don’t know if I can choke it down.

That naturally nutty PB looks amazing! Too funny about James – my pup has a phobia of weiner dogs in camo vests…he had a bad experience at the dog park!

Flying makes me really uneasy, too. But my main fears are germs and chemicals. (I buy all non-toxic cleaners for home use).

I am insanely envious of all the fancy nut butters you get in the USA! Yum.
I have a fear of flying, but it doesn’t stop me, it just makes me very uncomfortable. I had to fly to and from New Zealand for a few years, so got used to it. I still get very sweaty hands and am silent though.

We take my little neighbour dog trail walking all the time and there is a mteal grated bridge that he is petrified of. As soon as he sees it he starts to tremble! I have to carry him over it each time.

The King off the Burger King commercials.
I wish I was kidding.
It started after I was at a friend’s house and saw the commercial of him in bed with this guy…like “Wake up to the king”.

Hella weird.

That’s very funny! Maybe he had a gator related nightmare?

I can’t think of any of mine, but I have a friend who has the same fear as James! 😉

Awww poor James! That top picture of him is so frickin’ cute, though!

This is horrible, and I cringe just typing this, but I am terrified of having my front teeth knocked out. I think about it all the time. It stemmed from hitting my mouth on metal on a playground when I was a whee one. I’m also afraid of escalators! I ride them, but it takes me a little while to step onto it!

OMGGGG!!!! I wanted to tell you this a week or two ago, but a huge group of OU students marched around campus in their bikinis talking about how every body is beautiful. I missed it, but I was like, THIS IS SO CAITLIN!

I thought my dog was the only one! It’s gotten a bit better since I’ve started running w him, but can be really dangerous bc he’ll dart out into the middle of the road to avoid the grate! I’m afraid he’s going to trip me or jump in front of a car. If we’re walking, he’ll approach very slowly and smell it, but if I try to pull him closer, he FREAKS. No idea where it came from either, and he’s a 100-lb Shepherd mix, would he really be that afraid of a raccoon?? Such an odd phobia.

That nut butter looks amazing, I’ve never seen that brand before. Dogs are funny creatures sometimes!

My old dog was afraid of them too!!!!

I’m scared of flying! I fly anyway, but I take Ativan to help me with the stress.

James is so cute – your dogs sound like they have SO MUCH personality!!

I have a mini-schnauzer and he became deathly afraid of grates a couple of years back for no reason. I wonder if it is some sort of optical illusion for little dogs………….

My dog won’t go over a grate in the sidewalk either!

(it’s bc they can hear all that sound down there!)