[QUOTE=LauraKY;5753919]
I had a beautiful little cocker spaniel, but she was not friendly to strangers. Of course, kids always wanted to pet the cocker spaniel (looook it’s Lady) and not the friendly, friendly collie. Of course.[/QUOTE]
I had chows. Which, for some reason, look to children like teddy bears.:eek:
Yeah right. If Satan has teddy bears.:lol:
When I was a child, we had a small yellow mutt that was the friendliest dog to strangers and other dogs until my mother was pregnant. Then the dog (a female), became very protective, even aggressive, and bit several people (including me!) and tried to start fights with the neighbor’s dogs. She tried to bite anyone who came to the front door.
A very different dog and we contemplated giving her away because of the behavior change, but our vet (who did ask if there were changes in our family) said to wait it out and see if it would stop after the delivery.
Besides that period of time, it was a quiet, friendly, and overall great dog and she quit the aggressive/protective thing after the new baby came. She wasn’t even protective of the new baby. It was just when my mother was pregnant. Go figure! She was a rescue so maybe something happened before we owned her, maybe it was hormones in the air, maybe she wanted to have puppies, or missed puppies that she had had before.
[QUOTE=pAin’t_Misbehavin’;5754005]
I had chows. Which, for some reason, look to children like teddy bears.:eek:
Yeah right. If Satan has teddy bears.:lol:[/QUOTE]
that’s really funny! LOL! :lol: (and true)
Chows I don’t know scare me. I’ll admit it. And I moonlight in the working dog crowd (they need someone to run the camcorder after all), so I’m not scared of big dogs. I think I am smart to be wary, but you can correct me if I’m wrong!
You can’t make generalizations about an entire breed, except that as a whole they lean one direction or the other. I have a female doberman who can’t fathom biting a person and she has good (annoying) drive, but was trained to be the family pet.
I have a male doberman rescue who has a hair above zero working drive and NO protection mentality period that would bite, but he is the most laid back, not nervous, cool dog (except when he’s sleeping). He had a rough beginning. My point being it is the upbringing, with the exception of certain breeds, more than anything.
I have been threatened by a couple male labs in my life. Aren’t labs supposed to be the poster child of “good” family dogs…
The only dog that has actually bit me was a friend’s dad’s hunting spaniel. Totally out of the blue when I was a kid and left alone in the house with him for a few minutes (I think I had to go). I have had and known various spaniels (cocker, water spaniel, etc.) who got very nippy with strangers, particularly in their old age. I think it was (irrational in their case) fear more than anything, but their senses were weakening and that’s what they turned to.
[QUOTE=marta;5752919]
. They are bred for dog aggression, tho not their original use. .[/QUOTE
I suppose that may be the case in some pitbulls bred by asshats but what other bully breeds are bred for dog aggression???[/QUOTE]
No, it’s true. All pits, not just asshats 
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