well here's another weird one...our dog (the same one...she is 'special' hahaha), gets TOTALLY freaked out by brooms/sticks of any sort. what makes this more interesting is that she has NEVER been abused as she was whelped at the rescue organisation....BUT her mum was. her mum was beaten quite regularly before she ended up on death row pregnant (and then adopted by the rescue org). so there could also be the possibility of inhereted/learned fears from mumma dog.

(oh, and we once had a horse that was scared of red dirt...and we lived in kingaroy that is just lambasted with the stuff ...couldnt take the silly thing anywhere lol).