I've always been scared of animals as far back as I can remember. A few reasons that I can think of for this are;
1) My mom took us to Trafalgar square when I was 5 or so. Back then it was a major touristy, feed the pigeons attraction and I remember that I would try to do so but when the birds got close to eating off my hands, I would panic and throw the food away.
2) Nigerians don't have Pets, they have security/attack dogs
3) I didn't grow up with pets so I don't understand their psyche
Anyway, I've never really thought much about these things until when I worked in San Francisco and I realized that the pigeons actually freaked me out... They had a ton of them in the city sometimes and the one off birds in Texas I guess didn't clue me in on my fear.
So I've always said I wanted to get rid of my generic animal fear but since me and my roommate don't have a dog I didn't know how. Not until we visited a couple professors who had pretty big dogs who were calm did I actually start getting better. Don't get me wrong, I still have my 1- second-there-is-a-dog-around panic but now, I can actually touch dogs and I won't not go to someone's house if there is a dog there. I think all bets would be off if the dogs barked though :). Now I'm wondering how to get rid of my fear of birds :).
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Indians don't have pets either. Definitely not the middle class. They have kids. In India most dogs are stray, so if one starts running towards you, you better start praying :)
I had a huge fear of dogs too. But thanks to a dog named Kai, that I met in Hawaii last year, I can now say that I am a dog person. As long as it is a well-trained American dog!
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