to get you started, here are the names of different phobias dealing with animals (thanks to http://www.phobialist.com/reverse.html): Animals- Zoophobia. Animals, skins of or fur- Doraphobia. Animals, wild- Agrizoophobia. Ants- Myrmecophobia. Bees- Apiphobia or Melissophobia. Birds- Ornithophobia Cats- Aclurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Galeophobia, or Gatophobia Chickens- Alektorophobia Creepy, crawly things- Herpetophobia Dogs or rabies- Cynophobia Feathers or being tickled by feathers- Pteronophobia Fish- Ichthyophobia Frogs- Batrachophobia Fur or skins of animals- Doraphobia. Horses- Equinophobia or Hippophobia Insects- Acarophobia or Entomophobia or Insectophobia. Insects that eat wood- Isopterophobia. Insects that cause itching- Acarophobia. Lice- Pediculophobia or Phthiriophobia Mice- Musophobia, Murophobia or Suriphobia Moths- Mottephobia Otters- Lutraphobia Parasites- Parasitophobia Rat, great mole- Zemmiphobia Reptiles- Herpetophobia Sharks- Selachophobia. Shellfish- Ostraconophobia Snakes- Ophidiophobia or Snakephobia Spiders- Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia Tapeworms- Taeniophobia Termites- Isopterophobia Toads- Bufonophobia Wasps- Spheksophobia Wild animals- Agrizoophobia Worms- Scoleciphobia I know they sound a little weird but bet you didn't know their were actual names for them! (I didn't)

If there is a phobia, there is a name for it. i am happy that I am not that terrified of anything, Phobias go far beyond the normal *shudder* dislike for a creature clear into the mere mentioning them sending the afflicted into some aberrant mental state. This fellow-earth inhabitors include for me, Great hairy spiders INDIDE my house. Cockroaches of 3-inch adult size complete with wings who fly at you in a closed-in shower and you cannot get out. I can deal with any animal who is not trying to devour me (as do sharks) outside and we both have the freedom to leave the other alone. I don't like being attached by swarming termites, either. What's yours Wolfie? I'm trying to get the dog lover here to post. He has rescued more than one percious dog from a puppy mill. I did not know such things existed! He's not particularly fond of humans, but he does love all of nature.

do bring him here, marcia! i can't say that i get the heebie geebies from anything but roaches do give me a fright (not to mention chills up my back). and have you ever stared down a jumping house spider? you know, the black kind with the white on their back? those little boogers can see you enter a room and turn to watch your every move. don't care much for centipedes either and i did get the wits scared out of me while netting grass shrimp in the woods. stuff came out of that ravine that you wouldn't believe. i have a cousin-in-law who suffers from aracnaphobia--she screams bloody murder at the site of them. more about puppy mills in the doggie woggie topic.

Oh yes! Jumping spiders. We used to have them in some quantity around the house with 8 beady eyes staring at you. They;re the ones which got me over being afraid of spiders! Then the gekkos arrived and ate them all. *sigh* The ones I really don't like are the cane spiders which are furry and are up to 3 inches from tip to tip. Shudder, indeed! Roaches revolt me. They carry diseases. Yes, I know John of Volos told me they are on the planet just as we are and are just looking for food. NOT MY FOOD!!! Perhaps he needs to have a *Psycho* moment in the shower with a 3" one flying at him. Yup, I don't like um even out in the wild!

oh yeah, palmetto bugs--we had them big time in Louisiana. orkin man kept them at bay but every now and again, you'd catch one sneaking around the house. my son refused to go back into his room one evening when he saw one slinking about the floor molding.

oh, i don't care much for lice bugs. in fact, i positively hate them. so why on earth are they here? what is their purpose?

well i'm not scard of bugs at all becase i have them everywere in my yard so you may be afraid of them but i'm not well goodbuy/

Amanda, where are you? It sounds as bad or hospitable (depending on your thoughts) as Hawaii. Wolfie, they and the carrion eaters of the earth are the bio-disposal squad. Other bugs are pollenators without whom we would have no fruits or nuts or seeds of any kind. They are more necessary to our welfare than we are to theirs!