I love dogs and they always come toward me on the street. I am a musician and years ago, I visited a drummer I didn’t know. His dog growled at me and had to be restrained. “You must have some kind of Nixon vibe, man” he says with a smile. He was black, I am white. I remember the incident, but only as an anecdote. I do not think for a second it was because of my skin or a “Nixon vibe”. Some animal thing in the dog didn’t like some animal thing about me.

Like we humans, dogs are different, they feel differently, and have strong senses of smell and hearing, but their vision is less accurate and they see less colors than humans, ironically.