My 2008 pied female is terrified of her vet in Tucson. She's never acted overly stressed at the vet's office, and she's always happy to let his techs handle her, but as soon as the vet picks her up, WHAM, she's in a ball. "I guess she still remembers having that medicine tubed into her stomach," he says.

This only partially extends to our vet in Mesa. She seems shyer around him than she is with the techs, but she doesn't immediately ball up.