[Lesley Silvester]

I'm not saying that my Pom is a coward but whenever she comes in for milking (we have a small conservatory/animal feed store/milking parlour), she stands in the doorway checking that the bogey man isn't in there (and letting all the heat out). 

Yesterday we moved our large metal foodbin from just outside the door to inside so I was expecting her to be a bit nervy.  We didn't even get as far as inside before she was in a panic.  "Where's it GONE?  There was something THERE and now it's NOT?  Has the bogey man taken it away."

Eventually I persuaded her that nothing was wrong and got her inside.  We then had, "It's in HERE.  How did it get IN here?  It doesn't belong in... hang on a minute, there's my food bucket."  Bogeyman forgotten until the next time.

This morning and this evening she looked for the feed bin outside the door again.  After the struggle getting it in, there is no way it's going out again.

[jaykay]

It is how they are 

I used to walk mine through the garden to the goat paddocks. Anything out of the ordinary - a bucket, a jacket over the gate - and the brakes went on and we spent ages summoning up the courage to walk past 
I suppose if you're a prey animal you have it hard-wired in to be wary of everything new and therefore potentially dangerous 

[little blue]

bless her, poor Pom .. you are naughty, moving things!
oh, sorry ... I mean the bogeyman!

[Lesley Silvester]

Even after two days, she's still looking warily.  Of course, now there is a place she can't see becasue the bin blocks her view until she is right in.  I'm sure her mum wasn't so bad.