An "out-of-character" moment for Lincoln?

[L Verge]

My father spent nearly thirty years in the military and was a great judge of character. One of his criteria was based on how a person treated an animal, and he was very rarely wrong. He could make friends with almost any four-footed creature - maybe from being raised on a farm. He was so good at forming those friendships that, while serving in Korea, he was asked to stay away from the compound that held the military K-9s because they loved him. I suspect that Mr. Lincoln had the same trait.