[Callahan]

Scooby Scooby Doo!!!

[corkoman]

my brother's german shephard was very racist and would go bananas whenever a brother would cross their house on the sidewalk. it was really embarrasing.

[Mr. Wright]

Any body want to be to what party Wanda Jones Dixon belongs! 5 will get your 10 she's a "D" and a "Liberal". If anybody needs to be put to sleep . . . .!

[KirklandJunction]

(Some dogs can remember scents, thus I saw a Utah bred hound go nuts when in a Chinese kitchen which was so new and strange he freaked.)

Regardless, if this dog failed to tell good guy from bad guy, he ain't doin' his job. Adios.

[Cicero]

As a matter of fact, we once had a German shepherd who went berserk when he saw blacks. We got him at the pound, where we were told that his previous owner had kept him chained to the back stoop until he was evicted and had to get rid of his dog. Evidently the dog was mistreated by this previous owner, who was evidently black.

On the other hand, he also had a fit when he saw someone wearing a hat. So he wasn't just a racial bigot.

Needless to say, we had to keep a close eye on him. But he lived a long, productive life and loved our family.

[goldstategop]

How can a dog be accused of racial profiling to begin with? I guess racism is now ascribed to the dogs. Oh and no sense in letting sleeping dogs lie.

[lepton]

Here's a weird one. I don't know if you want to put it on your list, but it may have some unusual implications.

[mr.sarcastic]

My mini-Dachshund has some sort of Napoleon complex and goes nuts around tall people. In my neighborhood there are a lot of tall black guys, so he could also be construed as racist.... but how idiotic does that sound?

[Arkinsaw]

My dog does not like men, except for me. She will eat a man up if he gets in her enclosure but women and children are fine.

[Reactionary]

The fanatic equalitarian nitwits have gone insane. They actually think that dogs are racially profiling them by sniffing out their dope.

[Dark Wing]

A "huh?" ping

[davisfh]

Reminds me of the time the Seventh Day Adventists showed up at my front gate. My collie who was an even-tempered old teddy bear (and had probably never seen a black person) spotted a black woman in the group and charged the gate. The group of four women jumped in their van and left.

I noticed, even before that incident, that dogs who have never been exposed to black people will usually react.

[Darnright]

"On Friday, while K-9 officer Schawn Barger wrestled with a drug suspect, he said a quick-release button on his belt was activated, accidentally opening a door to the K-9 wagon.

The dog lunged from the vehicle and bit a 9-year-old boy on the leg instead of the suspect, dragging him for about 20 feet, family members said. The boy is black. "

Ok, let's see here. Did the poor kid begin to scream and run at the sight of the dog? Police dogs are trained to go for whoever is running. If you stand still, the most the dog should do is bark in your face. Let's add to the mix the fact that the K-9 handler was just a little preoccupied to direct his dog at that moment, and you have the explanation for the "bigoted" dog's behavior.

[Captainpaintball]

BOLD PREDICTION:

The councilwoman will force the cowardly higher-ups in the police department to get rid of the dog. All across the country German Shepards will be replaced with Dachsunds, and political correctness will claim another victim.

[kaylar]

My standard dachshund was raised in an apartment complex with an ethnic mix. He loves all people, regarding all as prospective worshippers. He has no objection to any race.

His sister, a miniature dachsie, was isolated from other people as she was growing up . Not intentionally, it just worked out that way. By the time she was six months old, she hated pretty much the entire human race. She tolerates me because she has to , but she hates all other women.She only loves white men in their 30s, who remind her of her daddy. She flirts with them in an outrageous, shameless fashion. The dog has an Electra complex.

Our chihuahua is standoffish, but he doesn't respond any differently to people based on race. He dislikes children, as do many chis.

I read a book once about a pair of hippies who raised a cougar, back in the 1970s. The cat hated everyone who wasn't young, white, slim, and drably dressed (this was back when hippies wore army fatigues as their standardized way of showing their individuality). Black people, old people, fat people, flashy dressers, people who wore glasses...any person who didn't look like mommie and daddy, he hated. Whatever instinct prompted the cougar to discriminate in this manner, must be present in domestic dogs, too, and if the dog isn't introduced to a wide range of people before it's six months old, it may always hate people who don't resemble its twolegged pack members.

[ikka]

Wouldn't the standard liberal response be "education" for the dog?

[verity]

But councilwoman Wanda Jones Dixon said Dolpho can also tell the difference between blacks and whites, and should be put to sleep.

[billbears]

bump

[GivemeaBREAK!]

I think ALL German Shepherds or their owners should have to pay reparations.

I will re-think my position on this if it can be proven that Dolpho is a neo-Nazi or a skinhead and thus his behavior is purely individual and all GS dogs should not be subject to reparations.

Note: If he sheads he may be a latent skinhead.

[genefromjersey]

Dogs are notoriously "racist", in that they prefer the scent, appearance, sound, and movement patterns of their owners, whom, it is said, they recognize as members of their "pack".

I can get along with most dogs, but dogs owned by Black or Hispanic people don't generally care for me. I assume the same would be true of Oriental or "Amerind" dogs.

It's simply part of dog nature, but some folks assume a hostile dog has been specifically trained to dislike them.