MeiLing
Contributor
There was a time around about my childhood were most kids and dogs were raised to behave.
We had German Shepards when I was young and they were not any more dangerous than any of the other neighborhood dogs (mutts, labs, poodles and even a saint bernard). Some of the neighborhood kids, when we were small, perceived one of our Shepards as scary because he was prone to jumping on them and totally slobbering your face. He never bit anyone. He just really liked kids so much, he'd knock them down when they got close to his run to pet him. Of all the dogs we had when I was a kid, the most agressive and hardest to handle was a Lhasa Apso! Hard-headed, stubborn alpha male who had to have his way no matter what! Too bad that was in the '70's and we never had him neutered. Cesar Milan wasn't around either! I'm pretty convinced that neutering would have done wonders for controlling my Lhasa!
I'm glad you're okay, Ber! That Alpha attitude is what it takes to handle dogs.
IMHO, I don't believe that there are any bad breeds, just too many people with dogs as substitutes for spoiled children! Cases in point, are how nasty most of the little ankle biters are! So many are so spoiled, their feet never even touch the floor! I've watched a lot of the Dog Whisperer and thru seeing that program, I am even more convinced that the handling of dogs is a skill that most don't have a clue about! And some of his favorites are Pitts! There's a big red one that belongs to a big name rapper that Cesar uses all of the time to help socialize his customer's "problem" dogs.
It is particularly distressing to me that governments can ban breeds based on the behavior of a few. As a teenager, I was more afraid of my friends ankle-biting rat dogs than any others in the neighborhood. Damn things are sneaky too! Bite you when you're walking away!
Like someone previously said, sooner or later they may get around to banning one that is dear to you! Cute little Chinese Crested's in little aloha shirts or duck herding Aussie sheep dogs!
We had German Shepards when I was young and they were not any more dangerous than any of the other neighborhood dogs (mutts, labs, poodles and even a saint bernard). Some of the neighborhood kids, when we were small, perceived one of our Shepards as scary because he was prone to jumping on them and totally slobbering your face. He never bit anyone. He just really liked kids so much, he'd knock them down when they got close to his run to pet him. Of all the dogs we had when I was a kid, the most agressive and hardest to handle was a Lhasa Apso! Hard-headed, stubborn alpha male who had to have his way no matter what! Too bad that was in the '70's and we never had him neutered. Cesar Milan wasn't around either! I'm pretty convinced that neutering would have done wonders for controlling my Lhasa!
I'm glad you're okay, Ber! That Alpha attitude is what it takes to handle dogs.
IMHO, I don't believe that there are any bad breeds, just too many people with dogs as substitutes for spoiled children! Cases in point, are how nasty most of the little ankle biters are! So many are so spoiled, their feet never even touch the floor! I've watched a lot of the Dog Whisperer and thru seeing that program, I am even more convinced that the handling of dogs is a skill that most don't have a clue about! And some of his favorites are Pitts! There's a big red one that belongs to a big name rapper that Cesar uses all of the time to help socialize his customer's "problem" dogs.
It is particularly distressing to me that governments can ban breeds based on the behavior of a few. As a teenager, I was more afraid of my friends ankle-biting rat dogs than any others in the neighborhood. Damn things are sneaky too! Bite you when you're walking away!
Like someone previously said, sooner or later they may get around to banning one that is dear to you! Cute little Chinese Crested's in little aloha shirts or duck herding Aussie sheep dogs!
At least not anymore ferocious than most of those one's already are!
