This Troper's brother has had this happen alot. He's nice, loves animals, but the animals don't like him. Our old piano teacher's cat enjoyed beating him up. Same with all six dogs in the neighborhood, and those three random cats. Most of the squirrels in out neighborhood growl at him too! My uncle's cats will scratch him at any given time. Even my guinea pig hates my brother. It gets better. London, a dog randomly starts chasing him. China, a friend's puppy. Japan, some random bird. Venice, a whole flock of pigeons and crows. Florida, a giant dog.

This Troper knows a friend of her mother's, who has tried to be affectionate to this troper's cats and dog... but the dog growls when he's near, and all the cats run away, or if they get picked up (note that out of six, only two are a bit iffy about being handled) claw him until free.

Very strange incident... this troper's father recalled an African man had come to buy something. Every animal we owned at the time... reacted. Every bird in a gage screeched and flew about as if trying to break out. The docile potbellies who were more or less stumpy icebergs on land attempted to break down the fence to get at him. Horses,donkeys,sheep, and goats rushed up in a stampede and battered the fence. Even rabbits started thumping their feet and squealing in their cages. Dogs howled and barked. My dad knew something was wrong. Turns out the guy was a Voodoo priest; my dad asked him to leave. He left and never came back. Witnesses were freaked as well. Makes me uneasy about angering the wrong person...

Why does this remind me of a Chick tract?

This Troper absolutely loooves cats but they always hate her and either scratch or run away.

Ah. I was going to note the way dogs are always as cautious around me as I them but catch on to cats. But yes, I think a lot of cats don't like people who are as up front and genki as you are about the touching and the picking up and the stroking and the cuddling and so on. You should be a bit more reserved and let them smell your hand first before anything else, with slow movements. Most cats don't like to be picked up anyway, but make sure you're supporting their body weight properly and not, say, suspending their whole body by their stomachs if you ever get to that.

Sakaki-San?

This troper has been chased by a goose, bitten by a swan, and pecked by an emu. I have no plans to go anywhere near an ostrich without a gun.

This troper has yet to meet a dog that wasn't automatically hostile to him. I mean, actually hostile, too; one neighbor's dogs will throw themselves at the fence dividing our properties if they see me ''upstairs through the window''. It isn't fear, because I'm used to the things turning into frothing helldemons. It isn't subconscious cues from their owners unless all my friends secretly hate me. It's not even animals, really, just dogs. Weird, right? Maybe dogs are enraged by allergies?

Same here, buddy. I've mentioned the fact that I'm an psycho-dog magnet to my brother. His response? "They can sense when you're afraid of them." Yeah, bro, walking down the street minding my own business, not even making eye contact with the animal is being fearful. Seriously, there can be 400 people walking down the street past a yard with a dog who's apparently got sloth DNA (judging from his activity), but the minute I get within 5 feet, they start practically giving themselves head injuries to try to bust the fence down.

This troper is the same way. The only dogs that do not automatically hate him are his aunt's (who knew him since they were puppies and learned from the previous generation already being used to him), and it's to the point where his sister's (very, ''very'' temporary) dog would ignore him if anyone else was in the room, growl if nobody was, and turn barking madly if the house was empty apart from me.

This troper is also pretty much the same. 90% of the time, dogs just go nuts when I pass them, even if they didn't for people previous. Though this may be because I have cat fur on me often, which they could sniff out.

This troper has yet to meet a mammal that does not stare at him and run away if he moves towards it.

Played both painfully straight and subverted: Dogs ''hate'' This Troper and seem to always home in on him, ''even in large groups of people''. However, cats seem to love me and I'm seriously considering having one as a pet someday.

This troper can't walk through her home town without EVERY dog barking at her and every cat hissing. Given that this troper is a wolf of sorts, she finds it ''hilarious''.

Possibly a subversion: this troper's problem is actually that dogs love her leg too much.

This Troper had this problem as a teenager, but seems to have grown out of it. Was a time when I couldn't walk down the block without some fucking psychopathic poodle trying to claw its way out of a car to get at me. The most noteworthy incident I remember was when I passed a guy walking his Rottweiler (or some similar great big black thing). The bastard started barking like mad, and then made a frenzied attempt to charge at me. The owner managed to subdue it by kicking it.

This troper has a pen pal who related his experience at the zoo. Every animal acted either aggressive or timid whenever he passed. Snakes hissed at him, dingoes barked at him, cheetahs growled at him, chimpanzees bared their teeth at him, gorillas beat their chest at him, monkeys hooted at him, catfish swam away from him, coyotes ran away from him, peacocks flew away from him, and hawks screeched at him.

For some reason Dogs hate me, dogs that are normally friendly get all angry around me. As a result it try to avoid dogs. It was working until I went to a friend's house, but was not informed that he had a dog. You can take a guess what happened.

He's now an ex-friend? This troper has the same problem, and that's how I deal with it. You let a predatory animal loose on me, you make yourself my enemy.

This Troper IS This Trope. He has had Normally Passive dogs charging at him, Birds Swoop at him all the time, Cats hiss and growl whenever he approaches and sharks eyed him hungrily when he visited the Aquarium. When he visited his local zoo with a group, birds shat on his hat TWICE.