Ceiling fans and shadows on ceiling and walls

[Sandra]

My Billymac has started to look up at ceiling fans in living room and shadows made by lights on in house at night 

if we put fans on in hot weather he runs for his life and won’t come back in house even if it’s cold and wet 

he never bothered about these things when he ferry came to us 

what’s going wrong?? He’s only started to be like this in last couple of weeks and I haven’t changed his routine in any way please anyone got ideas???

[HeyRunDog]

It's impossible to know what causes greyhounds to suddenly take exception to something. Perhaps there was a loud noise just as the shadow of the fan went across his face.

The quick solution is not to use the ceiling fan and get a fan that stands on the floor.

The long term solution is don't use the ceiling fan for a few days. Then switch on the ceiling fan but be ready to turn it off as soon as he shows signs of distress. Don't react to him by comforting him while he's showing signs of distress as he'll think he's getting rewarded for being scared, but calmly turn the ceiling fan off and sit down and have a treat ready when he's settled down . Hopefully overtime he'll get desensitised