My dog is afraid of me - and only me - coughing. She is an eight year-old Blue Staffordshire Bull Terrier. We have had her for a year and she is always like it. It isn't so bad, but lately I have been really ill and she is just terrified - constantly running upstairs whenever I cough. Any idea how I can get her over this behaviour?

Go see a doctor for your cough.

Contact the Dog Whisperer. He'll tell you what's bothering her.

Maybe you have a loud, throaty cough that sounds like a large dog barking? All I can think of.

Take cough lozenges.
Quoting from him directly, he trains the owners and rehabilitates the dog. Or was that the Cat Whisperer?