My two Labradors have never attacked a human, adult or child, who entered their back yard. They've been exposed to workmen, meter readers, friends of both sexes and my two godsons ages 5 and 2.
“My two Labradors have never attacked a human, adult or child, who entered their back yard. They’ve been exposed to workmen, meter readers, friends of both sexes and my two godsons ages 5 and 2.”
Let me assume you are a responsible, caring dog owner - i.e. one who has raised his dogs as members of his family. I’d be shocked if you isolated your dogs, or if you had not set limits for them from puppyhood, in a firm but fair way. In the statement above, your pets have been exposed to many people.
This is proper socialization, essential for producing dogs that are very tolerant of strange children. Even so, remove your dogs individually to strange environments, with strange people, put them on chains and you cannot guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt that your dogs could not be goaded to bite if pushed beyond a certain point. Your dogs’ point of biting would most likely be far different from the dog in this case.
Sadly, you are fast becoming the exception, not the rule, especially among the subset of individual who is drawn to some powerful breeds like the Rottweiler and the pit bull for all of the wrong reasons.