Good question! Haha!! I was "training" twin girls, Cara and Cora, in the dangerous world of agriculture and started them off at the berry bush. I had quite a few teenagers to train and didn't notice their phobia of berries straight away because one of them had no problem and started foraging immediately while the other ran away. I thought I had inadvertently placed another VV too close to her and put her back to the bush with no problem. While one went back to the bush from the food bin, the other started pacing "worried about housing" and when I placed her back on the bush, she ran, then I checked her details, and was surprised to see she had a dislike of berries.

I thought for a second then that they weren't twins, but no, the other who was quite happily foraging away, also had a "phobia" of berries. So I placed the other twin back on the bush (I felt a bit cruel doing it) to see if she had a dislike and although she ran away the first time, she then started to forage.

So, they both have overcome their phobia of berries, but not, as you can see, their one of dancing! Well, you know what they say...."you can bring a horse to water, but you can't make it drink!!" Haha!!

One final thing, I've also noticed that I have several doctors with a dislike of medicine but have trained in that "career" quite easily, so when is a phobia not a phobia?? Good question...

Just thought I'd share,

Best of Irish,
Maura