I took Nebo to the firework thing at the high school last night....(just fyi so you don't think I'm mean, the fireworks startled him at first but after I gave him a rawhide he completely ignored them)

There was of course, LOTS of people. He was fine...Melissa and I were just sitting on our blanket with the dogs...kids they didn't know kept coming up and petting them (and annoying the heck out of me) He has no problems with kids. There was people of all sorts all around us...no reaction...I walked him around close to people...no reaction at all....

Then my friend's brother came over to pet Lady. Nebo immediately stood up and started barking at him...raising his hackles, but he didn't bare his teeth or anything. Nebo stopped barking when he left and lay down next to me, acting normal. Her other brother walked by a while later and he barked at him too. He seems to have something against everyone in that family except Melissa (he loves her!), but especially the males, and especially the one brother.

He did bark at one other person, also a male...some kid wearing a weird jacket selling glowsticks. He was fine with everyone else, and even had some other adults come over and pet him. And we had a picnic earlier that day with a bunch of relatives...he's met them, but maybe only once...he liked all of them, even the ones who wanted nothing to do with him, lol.

He has no reason to fear males, he just loves my dad/brother/brother-in-law...and my dad has a beard and always wears a hat, so you'd think he'd be used to items like that.

See it just seems weird to me...when people come up to Lady it's like "Oh, people! Pet me!! Wag my tail! I love you forever, pet me pet me!" And Nebo's like "Oh, hi....let me sniff you first..hmm you smell funny, don't pet me please." It's only recently that he's barked at people though.