Dogs have a way of sensing bad actors. Can’t tell me they don’t.
I don’t know what it is, but they can do it.
To get all hipster doofus about it, maybe their innocence makes them sensitive to evil. Or maybe they can read hostile body language.
IMO, that’s why ‘some particular religion’ despises them so.
They sense evil.
I’ve had the Dobes react to seemingly friendly, “nice” liberals, too.
Not to the extreme that he went with the screamers, but they’ll simply “rudely” pull away and not allow themselves to be petted.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth...”