Published on 12, July, 2020
They make loud noises, unpredictably, so I dislike dogs. At my age I can carry a stick with no-one being surprised, so if I am going on a long walk and might come across dogs, I now carry a stick. It makes me feel more confident.
Dogs are extremely predictable when you understand them. Though obviously to someone that has never owned or had dogs in their life won’t know that. I’ve always said (before I knew I was autistic) that dogs are autistic. They don’t like change, anything out of the ordinary. They have amazingly strong senses-hearing and smell. They like routine. As an example, I’ve had dogs freak out and start barking at a football in the water they came across. They walked there all the time, loved going in that water, would have tennis balls thrown in the water. But this was an object that shouldn’t have been there, and had never been there before. They knew what footballs were and had they found one on the path would have played with it. But to them, in this situation it was wrong, and they were scared.