Can they be biased against or show aggression towards a certain skin colour?
sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLmluhjwZDo
shareExactly what I immediately thought of.
shareHilarious that you showed an actual racist to prove dogs can be racist.
shareI think that animals have shown discrimination on many occasions. Wolves do in regards to fur colour.
Edit....oh, you were talking about dogs not liking people based on the colour of their skin
To answer the question you asked. I think that dogs can pick up on the biases of their owners. I also know that dogs can sense human emotions so if dogs are either feared or found disgusting by a culture and the dog encounters many people who hold those feelings they can associate those who look that way to be non friendly.
My last dog hated most men. She did not like to be around them at all.
So similar to babies and children then?
shareI've met a dog or two that didn't like men...owned by women who didn't like men and/or had bad experiences with them
shareShe did come around to both my ex husband and then my current partner, but out on walks she would get quite defensive and then show aggression towards men, but would be super friendly with women. From what I understood of her past before I got her she had two different abusive homes before she came to me as still a puppy. I'm guessing the abusers were male, but I don't know for sure.
shareYes, wrong of me to assume in all cases what I said. Could have been abused by a man.
Edit: Never met a dog hostile to women only!
Oh I don't think it was wrong of you to assume that that could be the case with some dogs for sure. I do think that we can teach our dogs to not like certain people, whether it be colour or sex.
shareBut now that I come to think of it, it was because the dog was abused by a man, and has little or nothing to do with the attitude of the woman
shareThe dog on Seventh Heaven, Happy, was rescued from an abusive home. When they first began filming, she would charge Steven Collins and the other male members of the cast. The trainer figured out that she had been beaten by a man. Every season they had to bring her back to the set early so she could get used to being around the male members of the cast.
shareAccording to the premise of this film which was creepy and disturbing, yes: https://moviechat.org/tt0084899/White-Dog
shareThe dog was not racist. The man who trained him was. Kind of ironic considering he was portrayed by Parley Baer, a man who never had a mean word to say to anyone in real life.
shareI don't know about discriminating because of color, but I have a chocolate lab who is a friendly dog and whenever we go to the dog park, if there are any boxers there, they are extremely aggressive towards him. The boxers will play fine with other dogs, but when they see him, they just do not like him at all.
As far as dogs towards people, I do not know. I guess it's possible and probably depends on how a person treats them. My dog will sometimes bark at people who wear ball caps. I have no idea why, but he just doesn't like them.
I doubt that
shareI don't know about all dogs, but my dog definitely was. Unmistakably so.
He was originally owned by an old Asian woman before we got him and I don't know what happened during his time living with her, but from then on, if ever he encountered any Asian person, he lost it - especially kids. Lost it.