My Racist Dog: Only Trusts Whites (Rejected Children's Books)

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I do have black and asian friends but not many who live near and visit, so the dog wouldn't see them in the normal course of events.

Moreover, she notes there have as yet been no peer-reviewed studies that would prove beyond a doubt that skin color can trigger negative behaviors in dogs.

A friend of mine's Jack Russell has a thing about joggers and people on bikes - a dog behaviourist said it was probably because when she was 16 weeks old she broke her leg and therefore missed out on a lot of the early walking/human socialisation puppies get at that stage. Which really leads us to the question: Why does it seem, anecdotally at least, that a noticeable number of dogs tend to perceive dark-skinned or black people as importantly different from the rest of their pack? Racism is an ugly concept and an ugly word associated with an ongoing, systemic problem in our society, deeply rooted in history. What she didn’t know was that it was far from the first time I’ve heard people describe their dogs as such.

The story itself isn’t funny at all and the last page destroys the entire premise, but some of the ads are hilarious! Something not often noticed here is that fear behavior – like running away – is equally unacceptable and just as much part of the cause of protective aggression as barking/lunging toward the threat. So proportionately more dogs are socialized around people with lighter skin, and therefore have a stronger reaction to darker-skinned people. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. It took a very, very long time to persuade him out of it - he's now 15 and doesn't do it often, but that's the best I can say.

This is the “counter” in “counterconditioning”: we’re taking a situation the dog is wary or scared of, and turning it into a calm, peaceful, happy, joyous, delicious, and fun experience! So unless you know with absolute certainty that your dog was abused, don’t attribute his behavior to this. My instinct is that when we see dogs’ behavior, we have the intuition that dogs might be reacting based on a person’s race or ethnicity,” Dr. The big reason any dogs REMAIN “racist”, no matter what initial cause of the behavior, is that not enough time is spent on counterconditioning.