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I agree with alot of personal stories on this thread in that dogs remember things, especially bad things that have been done to them.

A friend of mine had a sweet old mutt, never harmed a fly, was freindly to everybody. I was at his house one day, and another friend of ours came in the front door, the dog was sleeping across the room under a chair, this dog had seen this guy 100's of times. The guy coming in the door was wearing a brand new pair of cowboy boots, something I had never seen him wear. He walked in, stood just inside the door and was talking, it couldn't have been more than 15 seconds, and the dog raced across the room and attacked his feet, tearing a big hole in his blue jean pant legs. It was the only time that dog ever did anything like that before or after. All we could think was that somebody, a neighbor perhaps, had kicked the dog wearning similar boots, it was the only thing we could think of.

I also had a dog that we got from the pound we recently had to get rid of, He was very friendly to adults, but was very agressive with children, it seemed that the shorter you were, the more of a threat he thought you could be. It was either some small kids had hurt him in the past, or just that he viewed somebody "small' as a threat to his position in the pecking order.