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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hate to say it, OP, but they could be picking up on your tension. At this point, you are expecting your dogs to go nuts and so you tense up, inadvertently triggering the very reaction you want to avoid.[/quote]

+1.  OP, you’re the racist, and your dog is really just exposing it.  Re-educate yourself. [/quote]
Oh please. That’s not what the pp said at all. [/quote]

Maybe not.   The point still stands.  The dog has learned to distinguish between races, which was obviously taught somehow.  They aren’t born knowing that distinction.  [/quote]

They certainly are born recognizing distinctions, particularly in smell. [/quote]

They totally are born recognizing that different things look different. Beards, hats, skin color, larger people, people on bikes, etc. Different things set dogs off.

One of my dogs is afraid of bikes and scooters. I've had fosters that were terrified of trash cans, but not people. One of my dogs loves all people and the other is set off by men with darker skin (but strangely, not if they are bald).[/quote]

I had a dog that would go berserk barking at men on motorcycles.  I had a friend whose dog hated short men.  Women and tall men were ok.  Both dogs were rescue dogs and I wondered if they had been abused by someone who rode a motorcycle and a short man (respectively).  But who knows?  Maybe they were just unfamiliar.[/quote]

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