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Dogs are so very much like people. As hard as we all try to love one another, sometimes there is something in the way they look or smell that can turn us off without us knowing why. I have a Golden that loves everyone and is with me constantly so when she growled at Wirehaired terrier named Murphy, I could not understnad why. Murphy was a very friendly dog but there was something about her my Sundance didn't like and still does not like to this day. All we can do is shrug our shoulders and go on. :)
Isn't it fascinating how dogs choose their friends??? Once we had a Black Lab mix, and she just loved most dogs, but there was this one dog with short legs that would visit us and wanted so badly to be her friend. She would give him/her one sniff, then turn her back and walk away. I always felt bad for that cute little dog...a very friendly animal...I called him "Stubby", and had no idea whose he was. I've always wondered what it was that Holly didn't like about him.