Your dog can be your wingman, watchdog or a hater
If my watchdog doesn’t like you, then maybe I shouldn’t either
Dogs are a good judge of character. I hear this all the time as a dog walker. Generally, I believe it. But I have no idea what Faith, my German Shepherd, knew about one particular gentleman I crossed paths with while walking her.
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Minus mail carriers, she was usually a quiet walker. She’d memorized who I stopped to speak to, whose gates I was going to hang out in front of and who I’d pass by without a word. Her attitude mirrored mine. Even when she did bark behind our fenced-in yard, I knew I could bury my entire face in her fur and be greeted with a lick on the face.
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But I recall one particular walk that still strikes me as strange. A car cruised by as we were walking, and the driver got out to talk to me. She let out a low growl and showed her teeth. That growl turned into barking loud enough to make Stephen King’s Cujo probably want to tell her, “You need to chill out.”