Daughter has a dog phobia, can anyone help?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

A practical approach in the meantime would be to tell her you're going to stick her on a set of reins until she learns not to run into the road. She's still small enough and if she protests, well it's just until she learns that she can't run away. What if there were a blind person collecting their child from school? - you couldn't complain about that and she wouldn't be able to differentiate between a working dig and a family dog before sprinting off. She may well decide that she wants to do something about it if the alternative is reins.

Moreover, she is making herself look interesting enough to chase/stimulating the chase response, which with an out of control dog is just as dangerous as the traffic bit.

Once you are safe in the knowledge she's unable to run in front of an HGV, everyone else's advice is worth consideration.

elsien

Clock the OP date folks - guessing that any further advice may be a bit late. Always amazed when such old threads reappear.

rachelhen

I am frightened of particular dogs an din my job it is causing me problems, anything with fluffy fur is ok anything muscly looking scares me to death I have a dog myself and had a collie till 18mths ago. I have never been attacked by a dog it is ridiculous!!!

UKTigerlily

Hi, I was going to suggest PAT as I have a PAT dog but you'd need to go via a psychologist, Pets as Therapy won't put you in touch with someone with a dog as that's not how it works, anywhere having a visiting dog needs to be registered & it needs to be a controlled environment, see the GP & ask for a referal to a psychologist who deals with dog phobias, if the GP doesn't know anyone who does go to any Psychologist & they can get their clinic/hospital registered to recieve a visiting dog.

mike_orme

Just sort it. there's nothing worse than leading a life in fear when it's easily sorted. It is not as bad as you think to sort.

foreign_correspondent

mike_orme wrote: »

Just for future reference if anyone finds this thread and has a similar problem.

The reason hypnotherapy might be a good idea is you will be relaxed when you do the desensitisation. Some other therapies do this anyway but hardly ever as good as with a trained hypnotherapist. Also, it's all done in your head rather than with a real dog, so there's far less anxiety about the whole process.

And yes it does transfer to the real world when you have completed your treatment.

Hypno-desensitisation has a high success rate.

Just remember a healthy respect for things that could potentially be dangerous is not a phobia, it's good sense.

here's an article on it.

elsien wrote: »

Clock the OP date folks - guessing that any further advice may be a bit late. Always amazed when such old threads reappear.

yeah, it's funnny how often they re-appear when bumped by a first time poster who is trying to post a link to (presumably) their own site!!! Spammety spam spam!

catlou

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

yeah, it's funnny how often they re-appear when bumped by a first time poster who is trying to post a link to (presumably) their own site!!! Spammety spam spam!

I agree!! :eek: :rotfl:

calebdylan

Always approach a dog without looking at him or paying any attention to him. If the dog is barking at you or approaches you, keep doing what you are doing and pay NO ATTENTION to this dog. That barking dog will start to realize that you mean no harm to him and his barking does not intimidate you. If you show your fear, he will sense your weakness and do whatever is in his power to make you feel scared. Dogs like this are usually terrified of you and are barking at you to cover up their insecurities.

mike_orme

Yeah spam.

Like you're a great help to a person with a phobia who finds this thread. NOT!

foreign_correspondent

mike_orme wrote: »

Yeah spam.

Like you're a great help to a person with a phobia who finds this thread. NOT!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Well, I may be or I may not be... but I wouldn't charge!

That's the difference between 'spam' and 'not spam', mike orme hypnotherapist! Shame you couldn't post your link

Fair play to you for trying to drum up business, but it does make your post