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Originally posted by honeychile
BTW, Shiloh bit me while he was at my office, not on the ranch. He had no reason to be protecting anyone at the time, but he had just woken up. "Let sleeping dogs lie" is something I take to heart!! In contrast, when my mother's dog (a Bichon Frise) is playing rough, he will still cover his teeth with his mouth when "biting" you!
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Just to clarify, it doesn't really matter all that much where the dog is at, if the dog was bred/trained that way, something triggered it. My thoughts would be possibly in an unfamiliar area, maybe (your office) and/or the fact that the dog was just waking up.
I didn't disagree with you that some dogs are designer dogs. Yes, I do know that some dogs are bred with certain characteristics, that wasn't a disupte. What it comes down to is proper training.
In any event, I'm sorry the dobie attacked you. I love Dobies a lot but they still scare the hell out of me! I also personally dislike being around any dog that has been trained to be any type of guard dog or attack dog. No matter how obedient they are, if they can attack on cue words, that's a no go for me.
Regardless of the pits or not, taking dogs that "look like pits" is horrible because as I stated before, many people mistake Boxers as pits.
It is sad because a lot of people buy pits without giving them the proper training they need, because they are/were bred to be a vicious dog. I only mean to say that it's unfair to the owners and dogs that maintained the proper training/went through the proper training.