15 Common Home Items that Terrify Pets

By Shayna Meliker


Is your pet afraid of common household appliances like vacuums and blenders? How about things that seem completely harmless - and more irrational - like microwave popcorn and duct tape?

We polled the Vetstreet Facebook fans to ask which items in their homes scare their pets, and here are some of the most common, most interesting and most eccentric answers we got.


1. Crockpot!" - Candice Hoerner

2. "The chimes of our grandfather clock." - Joyce "JJ" Walker Wiebbecke

3. "I have a kitty who really hates my sewing machine, especially when I am winding bobbins and the machine is running fast." - Charlee Harris Talor

4. "My Labrador is scared of tape. The sound of it unrolling scares her and she hides in a corner. Oh, especially the sound of duct tape! That's why every time I unroll duct tape, I do it slowly." - Marie Janelle Tacloban

5. "My Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, is scared of anything that sprays, like the vegetable oil bottle." - Maryjane Cook

6. "Our cat, Clyde, is afraid of my husband's rechargeable shaver. He bats it out of his hand every time."
- Janice Michael

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7. "My dog is afraid of my SodaStream machine. It makes a fwoosh sound when the water carbonation is complete." - Christa Lajoie

8. "I used to have a dog who was terrified of balloons, and of anything that resembled a balloon. My sister had an inflatable snowman that we'd put in the living room at Christmastime, and the poor dog was TERRIFIED. He completely avoided the living room for the entire season." - Audrey Nickel

9. "My cockatoo is scared of the radio." - Martha Jackson

10. "I have one afraid of popcorn in the microwave." - Marla Claudin

11. "Anything that beeps. My Jack Russell Terrier hides through the whole show of The Biggest Loser in her crate. She's petrified of the scale when it beeps at the weigh-in!" - Michelle Doyle Messner

12. "My cat hates it when I tear off aluminum foil - he freaks out and dashes around the house. Plastic wrap, parchment paper, trash can liners? Eh, sometimes. But the foil is always a direct hit for a thorough freakout session." - Chris Patzkowsky Cunningham-Smith

13. "My Pug doesn't like the vacuum at all!!! All I have to do is open the closet, and he goes nuts."
- Donna Wenck Fujikawa

14. "My Australian Shepherd shakes and drools... he's so scared of the low-battery warning chirp from the smoke detectors." - Ann Marie McCain

15. "My cat is afraid of the ceiling fan." - Pam Timmer Davidson

What is your pet afraid of in your home? Tell us in the comments below.

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