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“I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always … so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.” ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi I don't think any of us, or our dogs plan to wake up in the morning and to be afraid of something  But, we will often go through a day dealing with anxiety or a worry, or things happening to us that are scary! Our dogs can't intellectualize it, or process why they may be afraid-like we hopefully can. ...