I know my girls and trust their instincts. My two yorkies are very friendly and they love everyone. I think I would be cautious around someone they didn't like.
I want to share a story about our boxer, Boo (RIP). Boo loved everyone, too. She was truly a family member with a different relationship with everyone in the family. Every year she would spend a week with me at the school library where I worked. She had free reign of the library and she always picked at least one kid and stuck with them. Knowing the backstory of the kids she picked made me understand her choice(s). She always picked the kid who needed her most.
One year she picked a sweet little girl - one we knew had a bad home life and stuck to her like glue. Boo was very protective of this sweet child. Skip forward - we always bought our horse feed from a neighborhood feed store. Boo liked to go and "supervise". On one occasion, she reacted very badly to the man loading the grain. Had the window not been rolled up, I believe she would have hurt him. The ONLY person Boo ever acted aggressively towards, EVER. Found out later that this man was the father of that little girl. Soon after, he was sent to prison for abusing her. Boo was a hero in my eyes. |