Friendly Dogs Who Charge?

[Lammchen]

My neighbor's dogs know me. I took care of them plenty of times when the family went on vacations.

But the dogs charge at me in an aggressive manner when they are in the front yard and I go out toward the street (still in my yard). They are labs and have known me since they were puppies. Why do they bark like that and charge at me as if they are going to hurt me? It startles me but they've never ever hurt me. Once they get a foot away they realize who I am and stop. Aren't dogs supposed to smell people a bigger distance away than one foot?

 

[Nomad]

When it was a poppy, my neighbor's doge liked me. Now it is grown up and he always barks at me. Maybe these doges have a short-term moments and they cannot remember us from the smell.

 

[Lammchen]

When it was a poppy, my neighbor's doge liked me. Now it is grown up and he always barks at me. Maybe these doges have a short-term moments and they cannot remember us from the smell.

That's possible. Maybe some dogs have a stuffed up nose? I mean, I have allergies and I know some dogs who have allergies so maybe these can't smell things from a distance like normal dogs do?

 

[Nomad]

I recently checked online and found that dogs actually have short-term memory and they can forget within 2 minutes. The news was reported by National Geographic, therefore, it can be fully trusted.