Why Is My Dog Panicing Over a Flag?

When your dog experiences an event that they feel was exceptionally threatening to them, to their well-being, you are not the one who judges the severity of their emotion. The way you're going to know how severe the emotion was is to watch their behavior. You can visualize a time when you were afraid or you could visualize a time When you were fearful and you could try to bring up the emotions but you can't do that with your dog. Your dog simply exists.