I get into arguments about this with my wife, who is a riding instructor but I think has poor "dog sense". That is, when she is helping a friend who is out o

I get into arguments about this with my wife, who is a riding instructor but I think has poor "dog sense". That is, when she is helping a friend who is out of town with a dog she goes in the house and yells the dog's name and the dog is cowering in the crate. I just flop down on the bed and the dog comes out of the crate. I ran with a pack of dogs as a kid and developed "peer" body language instinctively that helps me click instantly with strange dogs but my wife warns me that I'd better watch out with more dominant dogs because I might get attacked. My problem now is that I go out-as-a-fox these days with a hood that people read right but that I think dogs read as "bear".