Can't visit friend as her dog is racist

It does make sense…a lot of dogs don’t like black dogs for the same reason.

I’ve got one who loves everyone and one who hates high viz, mobility scooters, border collies, French bulldogs, cats. He was six months old when I got him and he’d missed his socialising window.

There will be very good training guides on how to desensitise dogs to specific triggers. Sometimes it's a negative association, I remember reading about a dog that would go crazy at people in hi-viz vests. He'd been run over by a bin lorry and obviously associated the worker that helped with the pain he'd felt.

Sometimes these things make sense and sometimes they don't. My dog lost his absolute shit barking at a terror out the window which turned out to be a small bucket being blown around the neighbours paddling pool.

He also went insane barking at a snowman at the park, barking and bouncing towards it. Then peed on it and walked off like nothing happened 😂

Is this you?!

Right- so the dog is scared of a black/mixed race/darker skinned people.

one of the people he is scared of goes round his gaff- he is scared and reacts with aggression…

and the person confirms to the dog that he is right to be scared of them by doing something horrible and scary to him.

And you think this will stop the dog from being scared?

Yep- loads of dogs bark at my wheelchair. They just don’t get it and it freaks them out.

Loads of dogs also hate men or women or children, or people in hats or glasses. I can easily believe some are frightened by people with certain skin tones.

They are creatures with memories and emotions- it isn’t surprising that they develop preferences or fears based on their experiences, both good and bad.

What a load of rubbish

If a dog was actually racist, wouldn't its prejudices be directed towards different breeds? Like a British Bulldog hating on a German Shepherd because of WWII. Or a Jack Russell grumbling about black Labs, saying 'They all look the bloody same!'.

My dog is Postmanist. He doesn’t care what colour they are, or even if they are Post women. He just hates them.

every day really is a school day....

Our elderly cat hates men. She turned up in our garden about 10 years ago- aged around 5 and has never been reclaimed. DH had just died and so it has only been me and DD in her house. When men turn up she is clearly very fearful. She was neutered (not chipped) but had obviously been owned. She was a timid little thing so assume she had suffered some ill treatment she associates with men. Happy to report that our long- term lodger cat now knows she is queen cat of the universe (despite the squillions of foster cats and kittens.....) and we are her slaves.

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I have a cat who is the sweetest thing in the world. Put a hat on and she will attack. She is terrified of people in hats and goes into instant assault mode.

we keep her indoors and our heads hat free.

Not hate, per se. I have a can myself which I take on walks just in case my dog is attacked by another.

But as a training tool, it doesn't always work. In your circumstances, the dog will be barking because it is under the mistaken impression that people of colour are to be feared. Pet corrector, whilst not painful, is frightening for dogs. By using it, you'll basically be telling the dog that it is right to fear you and that it should redouble its efforts.

This then means that, best case, it will continue barking at you and other people of colour it meets and, worst case, it could escalate to a bite as it feels you have not heeded its 'stay away' warnings with barking, growling, etc.

I feel like I shouldn't be laughing as much as I am 😂😂😂

My mums dog hates people with beards. Weird creatures dogs lol

That's so funny

My beagle definitely knows other beagles - he gets so excited and sings the song of his people!

@CaliforniaCookie just because I know you have a LOT of posts to wade through, in which tediously literal people deliberately misunderstand your wording, wanted to repeat the pleas not to use pet corrector with this dog. It honestly will do far more harm than good in this instance.

Dogs cannot be racist FFS. Change your wording, OP.

Nah - it's real. I would have thought it a wind up were it not for my friend's dog - not a rescue - with out of control barking at any black man

love this

i had a rescue that used to bite black males. Not ‘racist’ as that’s a cultural construct dog’s don’t get. But most definitely fearful of a ‘type’ due to whatever had happened before, perhaps no exposure to different races, or perhaps different ethnicities have subtly different scent?