Queen will turn to face a dog and chase it off with her head down. She looks like a cattle horse the way she will head them off. Blade prefers to try to stomp them with his front feet if they get in his way. Jake just ignores them but he has not been in a situation where he has had to defend himself.
The topic got off to guns but my post started out about pits. Mine take care of dogs too. One likes to chase them and the other likes to play soccer but this wasn't an ordinary dog. He was crazed. They scare me. I have seen the most gentleist suddenly turn. They will fight to the death. Our horses might as well have seen a cougar or something the way they were acting. They all chalked him up as "danger"