If you don’t know the difference between an ankle biter you can stomp on and pit that wants to tear your throat out, your missing some serious thought process. Is there any significance in the fact that you love large potentially dangers dogs with balls. Some passive-agressive people I have know use their dogs to satisfy their own emotional make-up If I am wrong, I apologize. "If I am wrong, I apologize." Apology accepted. All my dogs are neutered and spayed, and have been for 38 years, because I am not a breeder and don't want to be. My husband and I needed large yard dogs on the farm to protect the stock (checkens, turkeys, geese, goats, horses, etc) and the little guys just can't handle the kind of predators we have here in the Ozarks. I like small dogs, but am under no illusions about their temperaments, train them well, and keep an awareness that any one of them can rip a human face to shreds.
So again, apology accepted. Cocker spaniels tend to be irritable, and dachshunds bad-tempered. Both can inflict far more than a scratch, if not brought up properly.
Thank you for your graciousness. I had a farm and dogs can be very important to protect and watch..Your farm sounds yummy. I raised Angora Goats until my husband passed away but that was 20 years ago...Had a great watchdog, but had to keep her chained when outside..She got loose once and took off after the chickens, buy the time I got a hold of her, no chickens in site..The next day they decided to go into the coop again but I was still missing 2 roosters. Found them roosting in the garage. It took both of us to get them out of the garage and into the coop.. But my geese were the best watchdogs...No one got out of their cars until we chased the 4 geese away...They can be vicious, especially my African goose. He was the head goose