We had one once that disliked blacks, also. She was super friendly to anyone else, even strangers. We'd rescued her after finding her dumped, so we could only speculate that she'd suffered some sort of abuse in her past that caused her reaction.
Yes, the fear factor. It was so long ago, I'd forgotten we speculated about that, too. Animals absolutely can smell fear.
These were also our friends and neighbors, and we used to think it peculiar that so many were afraid of dogs. None of them had dogs as pets.
Swordy and planefags have already been here. Q may or may not ever come, but no biggie. We know where he is. Could be that his interaction with anons is no longer necessary. I look forward to the day the placeholders in PF start getting populated.
Sen. Kennedy said it on Tucker last night.