We own a dog, and most kids and adults relax around her once she sniffs them and tries to get them to pet her. Then again, not every dog should be pet or stroked, and I would never pet a dog without asking permission first.
I don’t want to get off-topic here, but why are you writing Hashem as hash-m? You skip a letter for no reason, but you don’t capitalize the “H”? Odd.