racist pets i've known
Every pet I've ever owned has been an incurable racist. This applies to both cats and dogs, and I've owned quite a few of both. They simply don't like nonwhites. The dogs bark at them, and the cats hiss at them.
I did some Googling regarding the topic of pets and racism. I found a thread where a dog owner claimed that Spot didn't like blacks, and he was shot down by the shrill voices of self-hating whites who suggested that the man's dog could tell that HE hated nonwhites and was only reacting to his owner's hatred and fear.
I wish this were true (that pets were innately tolerant, not that the dog owner in question hated nonwhites), but even at the apex of my Malibu's Most Wanted wiggerishness in the late 1980s, my cats' hair would stand on end whenever a black friend would visit my apartment. The blacks would try to ignore my felines' palpable distaste for them, and I'd try to apologize, but there was no hiding it.
Then I ran across one story where a Pennsylvania police dog was charged with (and cleared of) racism, and this one, where a Brooklyn dog owner laments the fact that her pit bull shows extreme prejudice toward blacks and Hispanics.
Remember that famous photo from down South in the early sixties where a policeman's dog is biting an innocent-looking Negro lad? I will never again blame the policeman. It's worth noting that the dog in that picture was a German Shepherd.
