I may get flamed for this, but I am more cautious around Chows than Pit Bulls. In my personal experience, there are far more of them highly aggressive than any other breed. They are territorial and tend to be one person or one family dogs.
If you ever see a Chow shaved, you may mistake them for a Pit Bull. They are shaped very similar under all that fur.
Chows do have a rep for aggression.
I agree. Chows are mean and nasty.
I’ve always heard the same thing. My aunt used to have a beautiful tan chow male with a bright purple tongue, his name was Bobby. She always kept Bobby leashed up or outside during our visit. we petted him as she held him, and no more after that. Some dogs are great pets but may become One Man Dogs, like I’ve heard that Doberman’s usually are.
Only dog who ever bit me was a chow. Well, my nephew’s pit when I was scratching him but Eli did but in a loving sort of way he took my arm firmly in his mouth and looked it me. I stared him down. I never went near him again. Scary.
Yup.
Chows can be pretty odd.
My sister dumped hers on my parents.
Until his stifles crippled him up, he wanted to bite everybody.
Except me.
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>>> I may get flamed for this, but I am more cautious around Chows than Pit Bulls. In my personal experience, there are far more of them highly aggressive than any other breed. They are territorial and tend to be one person or one family dogs.
I gotta agree with that. The one-person/family bit, very much!
My chow caution is more specifically tuned towards the females, based on several random (aggressively antisocial) encounters. Maybe my encounters with a single friendly, roving male is the exception to the rule - in any case, it’s the one breed of which I remain wary.
I won’t flame you. Virtually every Chow or half-Chow I’ve ever met has been at least a little bit crazy. They are the most one-owner dogs I’ve ever seen and they seem to really need good owners or else they go off the rails. Pits/Staffies I’m fine with, Chows I keep an eye on when I see one. We briefly owned a Chow/German Shepherd mix when I was a kid. “Briefly” because when we were on vacation six months after we got him, he got out of his run and tried to chase a car. He caught it, the hard way.
(Ironically, his name was “Lucky.”)
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” I am more cautious around Chows than Pit Bulls. In my personal experience, there are far more of them highly aggressive than any other breed.”
I worked a home service job going into people’s backyards for 20 years. In all that time the only two aggressive dogs I was unable to bluff my way thorough were both chows.