Canophobia

I’ve got canophobia,’ she said. ‘And no one else does in this whole country.’ Is it a racial characteristic, she wondered. Pioneers and cowboys who had conquered a whole continent wouldn’t worry about dogs.

Dave Parker’s encounter with the savage hound would not give him canophobia, which would stay with him for the rest of his life.

Simple phobias are those of clearly circumscribed situations such as exposure to dogs (canophobia), cats (felophobia), high buildings (acrophobia), spiders (arachnophobia),