On mizzly days everyone could be holding an umbrella. Her fear was definitely a Latino "look." I couldn't understand her fears but she definitely FIERCELY feared a Latino (looking?) male holding a closed-up umbrella.
The Latino (looking?) male hurt her badly. That was why she feared him so. Whenever she saw a Latino male holding an umbrella she would run away, HEADING FOR THE HILLS and hide.
This is California so there are many Latino males. She didn't fear ALL of them, just ones holding these kind of umbrellas.
She was a DOG and she couldn't reason out the particulars, just that a male (looking?) Latino she remembered beat her.
Interesting that you mentioned she wouldn’t take food from you for a while. My best childhood friend always had German shepherds, her parents were from Germany and were very strict people. Their first dog was a guard dog and she told me he had been trained not to accept food, ANY food, from strangers, so that potential burglars wouldn’t be able to poison him by tossing a poisoned steak over the fence or whatever. Obviously your poor doggie underwent some harsh “training” for this purpose; bad guy might have been a drug dealer looking for a guard for his wares, who knows.