A walrus on a mattress??

Enter my adorable dog, Shirley. Being a somewhat normal person I understand that because Shirley is not human and that I cannot communicate things to her with English it is perfectly reasonable for her to be scared of the air mattress in my office.

That's right, I have a dog that is afraid of an air mattress. I think this is mostly due to the fact that when you get up it makes noises and it is never really stable.

Today I saw an accidental interaction between the puppy and the evil mattress. She was running out of the office to say goodbye to my dad when she ran into the mattress and moved it. When she and I came back inside she promptly started howling at the rising mattress.

Having an irrational fear is completely normal, I think. Shirley also dislikes water in any form other than in her bowl. But snow is okay. If it is not falling from the sky, from a hose, or in a large body of water, she's good.

I, too, have my fair share of irrational fears. Do you see that thing? It's HUGE! And it has tusks, who ever had the genius idea to put a large tusk-wielding animal behind a thin glass cage is not a genius at all. Yes, I do know that the "thin wall of glass" is actually very thick, but this fact does not make me feel any better about the huge mammal. I mean, come on, the Saber Tooth Tiger didn't make it, why should this thing get to be all tusky?

I hope you could tell that was a walrus. They really freak me out. I think I first realized how afraid of them I was when I was around the age of eleven and my family went to the zoo for a day. I don't think I had ever been that close to a walrus before and there it sat, "Hey there little girl, like what you see?" And by that it meant, "Hey little girl, come over here so I can kill you with my tusks!" I seriously freaked out and had to walk out of the room.

However, like my dog and only liking water in its one form, I too do not mind tuskless walruses. Is the plural of walrus, walruses? I guess so. In any case I'd rather not see a ton of walruses walking around, thank you very much.

Do you have irrational fears? I'd really love to know.

XDara