Heh, I think I mentioned this in the annotations for Clarion Call, but that scene was based on a real-life trait of his. Generally speaking, he was a very friendly dog. He even loved his vets, who routinely did things that must have been quite unpleasant to him in the course of treating the illness that marked the last year or so of his life.

Occasionally, though, he would take instantaneous first-meeting dislikes to people whom he could not possibly have actually known were complete assholes, but who were, in fact, complete assholes.

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