Phobias anyone?

[zippy-kat]

While calming down from my worm scare (see: I've got worms! help! ) got to wondering...

does anyone have a phobia of any certain kind of animal? (or maybe not a phobia per say but a real scare/dislike)

Mine would be bears, particularly black bears. I'm not sure why...I'm just absolutely terrified of bears. Koalas are ok but anything else and I'm outta there! Last summer Mom came to stay with me a bit, we went to the El Paso zoo--I couldn't even go near the bear area. She took pics but I can't look at 'em. I don't even like Teddy Bears!

I've never had a 'meeting' with a bear other than a zoo setting...so I'm not sure what triggered this dislike/fright.

Anyone else, willing to admit to a phobia/etc of a particular animal?

[zippy-kat]

(Needless to say, I didn't watch Gentle Ben...lol)

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

I don't really have a phobia to any animals but I am scared of bugs (not very original huh?) espically spiders!!!
I am deathly scared of tornados (i know that is not an animal) but every time there is a documentary about tornados I watch them all the time..... I don' t know why I am so scared of them they just seem to hypnotise me and I have to watch about them..... every time there is a thunder storm I get real scared, not of the thunderstorm, but that a tornado might come (heart pounding scared) I just sit by the window so I can keep looking out to make sure one isn't coming and I keep the news on too. Weird huh?!?!?!

[Former User]

Spiders scare me to death! Casper and Kitty will take care of spiders if they see them but still, I scream like maniac... The other night I was loading the washmachine up already, to be ready to put on in the morning. There was a spider in our sheets and I said 'iiiikkkkkk' and took off so fast! My husband was next to me and almost got a heart attack because I yelled, got up so fast and took off.

[shais_mom]

I am with the others I don't like spiders at all! icky

[zippy-kat]

Bugs aren't very fun either but I'm not terrified of them like I am bears.

Hmmm....what is the phobia of bears called?

[LoudLou]

Phobias--- RATS/MICE!!!! Wild ones. Peoples pets don't scare me but the ones that think they should live in MY house--- SCARE ME! I think maybe the movies "Ben" & "Willard" did me in when I was little...... Spiders, too....oh, and earth worms

[Gio]

Snakes. I'm absolutely petrified of them, real ones, fake ones, pictures, snakes on documentaries... the lot. I was on holiday once and almost jumped off the roof of the hotel. There was a party there and there was a snakecharmer with two ( teethless ) cobras. They were harmless and if I think about it ratinally I must laugh but I can assure you it was not funny at the time!

I'm not too keen on wasps and bees either.

And I hate mosquitos, it's not a phobia, with them it's survival I'm fine with everything else.

[Former User]

Originally posted by Gio

And I hate mosquitos, it's not a phobia, with them it's survival

Oh yes, isn't it nice now that summer is coming and mosquitos with it? So annoying when you have a mosquito in your bedroom when trying to sleep....

[Pam]

Definitely spiders!!!

[AdoreMyDogs]

I always used to play with bugs when I was a kid, including bees and wasps, but I was stung in the eye twice, once when I was about 5 and once when I was in high school, and they did a number on me. I am purely terrified of bees and wasps, but all other bugs I still like, although I am rather grossed out by cockroaches.

I think my fear of bees may be classified as a phobia. I do know that I have a true phobia of needles, but that's not animal related.

I don't think I am too fearful of any animal that I can think of, although some make me nervous like bears! Whenever I go backpacking in the U.P. of Michigan I always sleep with a pot and a pan to scare the bears that get too close. I remember going camping with my mom shortly before leaving for college and it was at this very remote place in a heavily forrested area. I remember hearing something strange outside of the tent and it got louder and louder. As soon as I realized what it was, it was scary! Mom and baby bears were calling back and forth to each other and they were so close that I could have reached out and touched them, I could hear them breathing, and I could hear the leaves under their feet crackle. I was afraid to pound the pans together because if I spooked those babies, I was unsure of the reaction I would get from mom bear...I didn't know if she would lash out at us for scaring her kids? So my mom and I just lay there as quiet as we could until mom and baby bears were far enough away that we could breath

[Ann]

Bees and wasps scare me.

The main reason for that is that a blind relative of mine was outside drinking a glass of juice once, and a bee sat down on the glass. She didn't see it and got stung in her throat and died

Whenever I see a bee or a wasp I run (I'm not kidding), and during my 18 year of life I have never been stung by one and hope to keep it that way.

[purrley]

Rats and Mice - I'll take a spider any day or a snake.

[delidog]

reptiles...i.e. snakes!!!eek!!!! scorpions!!!(i guess that is a bug?!?!?!?!),tarantulas...(when i lived in new mexico we had too many of each of these!!!!)
i don't mind frogas...but i do not like touching them!!!
don't love rats either...mice don't bother me...i guess its' the disease that they carry that i don't like...too many years in stables to like rats...thats' what barn cats are for!!!!

p.s.

loud lou...you are dating yourself!!! but i also remember those awful movies...the worst thing was that michael jackson actually had a hit with the "ben" theme!!!!!aaaagggghhhh!!!!!!!!

[Dixieland Dancer]

Snakes are the worst for me but I also hate spiders, rats, mice and cockroaches! I become paralized with fear when I see a snake. I can't even go near the snake exhibit at the zoo and close my eyes when they are on TV.

I don't freak over worms but I don't like to touch them. I still can't bait a hook when we go fishing so I just sit and enjoy being outdoors and leave the fishing to those who don't mind touching those wigglely things.