Maddie and Murph aren't afraid of anything, if they're in the
house. They don't like fireworks or big storms, if they're
outside though. I was painting inside one day and they were
both outside. All of a sudden they went nuts, scratching and
whining at the door to come in. Very unlike them. I wasn't sure
what the deal was. Couldn't see anything out of the ordinary,
but I let them inside, since their behavior was definitely out of the
ordinary. Not 2 minutes later a whopper of a hail storm came
through. Next time I'll listen to them even better and get the
car in the garage too.

Oz is a lil' more wary of things. He's overcome a lot of fears
through socialization, like walking through doorways, taking
a bath, riding in the car, vacuum cleaner, walking past manholes,
etc. He hasn't shown any fear towards storms or fireworks yet,
but anything new he encounters, he's usually initially timid.
Except people and noticably friendly dogs, those he universally
loves and hasn't shown any wariness towards.

I bought these dog toys the other day... a monkey that eeee...
eeee...ahhhh...ahhhs... a rabbit that boing... boings... and a
sheep that baaaaa...baaaahhhs... The monkey sound was
a lil' too much for him, so if he squeezed it and it made the noise,
he'd jump back from it... He didn't really like playing with it, until
after Murph broke the sound mechanism. With Murph and Maddie
new sounds like that just make the toy more enticing vs scary.
Never consciously ever had to socialize them to new things.

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