I find it funny when I go to someone's house and their dog gets vicious with me and constantly barks and growls at me they say oh it just doesn't like brown people or black people or well people of color. I find it funny since I have a dog and it is not like that and I am pretty sure dogs are not born racist.
2007-07-19 05:58:52 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Dogs
Well the dog wasnt socailized properly. when you socialize you socialize with everyone donesnt matter the color,from babys to old people. So its just an excuse of their poor socialization. I have a pit and hes socialized with every color from old to young! No they are not born racist the owners made them that way!
2007-07-19 06:05:38 · answer #1 · answered by pebblesqt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This has nothing to do with racism. Dogs aren't capable of that :) The other family's dog is probably just not socialized well enough, meaning it has not seen all of the skin tones possible in humans. It is the darker appearance that makes the dog do this. It looks different to them than what they are accustomed to being around, which explains why your dog of course does not bark at you! Dogs are very visual animals due to thier age old hunting instincts and many of them pick up on differences very easily and make it thier job to let everyone know about it! The same thing would happen if you were to get someone to put on a hat and sunglasses. Many dogs will freak out when they see that because it is something they are not used to.
By the way, (even though this has nothing to do with this subject since it is most likely the darker/lighter SHADE of skin that dogs notice a difference in), dogs are NOT color blind, and they have very good eyesight. Especially hunting breeds which are bred to pick up on the slightest movements in the grass. Studies have been done and it shows that dogs can see in color just not as vibrantly as we do. They can see reds and blues the most but they would be a much more faded version than humans can pick up.
2007-07-19 06:08:56 · answer #2 · answered by kellyannettes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hehe. It may not be an excuse really. I had a lovely dog, who had never seen a black person, since I live in a country with very few black people. He was a dog who always loved everyone. When he met a black woman he started barking at her, because he had not seen one before. I thought thi swas strange, but then there was a question here on Yahoo of a black guy, who said his dog ws barking at white guys. So you see, it is not racist or anything, and of couyrse your dog doesn't have this feature because he knows you. It is a reaction that they have to the unknown. Of course they are not racist.
2007-07-19 06:09:30 · answer #3 · answered by cpinatsi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No dogs are not born racist... however I can tell you a story. We had a husky when I was a kid, and at some point my dad had some friends over and the dog ran over to say hello to them and ran right into a lit ciggarett. Well the guy holding it happened to be a black guy and after that he would do the same thing to any black man that came in the yard. Any other race was fine and black women were fine as well. Dogs remember bad experiances, so its possible that this dog had a bad experiance with someone. My current dog will let me do anything to him, but will not let my husband take a bone from him. It must have been something his previous owners did to him as he was obiously abused. Most people dont trane their dogs to be racist, some of them just are due to past experiances. (and to thoes who say dogs are color blind so this does not happen... just because they are color blind does not mean they can not tell the difference in SHADES of color)Good luck... and keep working with that dog, he should get over it if you are there enough.
2007-07-19 06:08:14 · answer #4 · answered by shadowsthathunt 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2017-01-21 09:53:06 · answer #5 · answered by mckinzy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is some truth to that, but the truth isn't "racism". It's improper socialization.
If a dog has never seen people other than caucasian when it was a puppy, it sees those people that are not caucasian as "different".
The same would happen if a dog was never socialized around people with facial hair, children, people wearing big hats, people in wheel-chairs, etc. If a dog has not been exposed to these things, it is alarming to the dog when it comes across them because it seems "out of place".
A few articles on socialization:
http://www.perfectpaws.com/pup1.html
http://www.pets.ca/articles/article-dogsocial.htm
2007-07-19 06:15:59 · answer #6 · answered by abbyful 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm not racist...first off. and growing up in a small town with out many ppl of color. my dog when we did see a black person would act differ..one time i had him tied out side of a small store and was sitting down and he lounged at a black guy...for no reason... he never did that before to any human. and as time went by i had a friend who is black. the dog never liked him. and the dog saw him often. one time we where just play fighting....and my old dog attacked the black guy(never did this to any other guy). he did not break skin but i was fast to stop the dog. sooo was it because he was black or not i'm not sure. i know he was not trained to be racist. and he was protective of me, maybe he knew something i didn't. maybe because of a differ smell.... but he never attacked or disliked any other guy i dated or was friends with....ur guess is as good as mine!
so maybe they can be....lol but i don't think so! just they see a differ color they smell a differ smell....also we had this dog from puphood so he was never abused by a black person.
2007-07-19 06:14:36 · answer #7 · answered by dragonwolf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL... did that happen to you too? I'm a dark skinned South Indian... and dogs just love barking at me and my Asian friend. People usually are just too scarred or embarrassed to say anything... but its probably that those dogs never saw your skin tone before and they're probably intrigued more than anything... it just seems racist in today's anxiety-ridden world...
I usually give people the "woe is me" look and the whole eternally unhappy emo thing for kicks...
But in the end, I doubt you're a victim of a racist dog breeding scheme.
2007-07-19 06:11:16 · answer #8 · answered by Treebeard 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe there using the dog 2 say its racist but there there the ones that are racist. And there dog is praobaly just a gaurd dog
2007-07-19 06:04:48 · answer #9 · answered by chip 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the dog I suppose, perhaps the dog was abused by a black person, or someone of dark skin? My mom had a dog when she was young that didn't like black people for one reason or another, the dog also would attack my grandfather if he tried to hit my mom, aunt, or uncle. So like I said, it depends on the dog.
2007-07-19 06:05:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋