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

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So, in my view, it’s only natural that they can be biased toward or against people of a particular race, nationality, culture, and/or gender. The other was a young man with cerebral palsy walking awkwardly on the footpath making screeching noises - Kite was young at the time and had never seen anyone with a disability like that before. I think one of the other reasons people are so reluctant to talk about their dog being “racist” (there’s that ugly word again) is they feel it could imply they, too, are racist.

My Dad is black and she gets on perfectly well with him, so it's not an anxiety or 'hatred', maybe she recognises the skin colour difference and thinks it's my Dad. This “story” is a total of 18 pages of only 3 to 5 words per page, followed by 12 pages of advertisements.

The psychological concept of “mirroring” has been proposed before, and it certainly is a real phenomenon in dogs: mirroring means taking emotional and psychological cues from someone else, and dogs have evolved an amazingly empathetic capacity for this with their human owners. There may come a time when it won’t be so easy to keep your dog in that protective bubble; then what? If during the formative times the indigenous peoples of those areas tended to be lighter skinned than african-americans, this might explain some tendency of modern dogs to perceive blacks as outsiders. 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.

This is a conditioned emotional response (CER) – your dog’s association with seeing people of the novel appearance is now positive one rather than a negative one.

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