[M.D. Holloway]

Our Rat Terrior is the sweetest dog in the world. She was a rescue dog from some old lady going into hospice. She is a great house pet - no accidents, barks only when someone is close to the house. Very loving. But here is the thing...she doesn't like black people. Our town is 97% white - we might have 6 black families in the whole berg. One black family lives in our hood. The kids are very nice - never did anything that anyother kid would or wouldn't do but our dog will bark at them and act real aggresive towards them.

I took our dog to the vet the other night to get her annual shots and the regualr vet wasn't there. Now our dog is cool at the vets and has never shown any signs of angst or distress. She was great until the vet showed up - a black vet. Imediately she cowers and backs away and tries like hell to get away.

"Hmmm, she seems rather skidish. Is she always like this?" The black vet asks.

"No, she is actually very loving and friendly" I answered.

"Must be the white coat." he replied.

"No, I don't think thats it. Sir, I do not know how to say this proper and I don't want to show you any disrespect but she doesn't seem to care much for African Americans. I don't know why - to my knowledge she has never had any problems, just doesn't seem to like them as all." I said.

"Hmmm, thats odd." He said.

OK, I call BS on that. I talked to all the dog owners I know and every single one of their dogs doesn't like black people. Like this is something new to him?

I thought it might be skin color and the fact that dogs have the whole rod thing sans the cone going on so they only see black and white and shades of gray. Maybe black people look like shadows that they can't figuer out?

Far as I can tell she is great with Mexicans and Asians.

Does your dog act this way?