Here’s the deal. We own a 70 lb. rot/lab mix with the thick lab body and rot markings. She’s nothing short of adorable. 11 yrs. on she’s yet to bite anyone (just squirrels, groundhogs, and the occasional rabbit when she can catch them). Every delivery person is terrified of her because she runs out with her hackles up barking like fury when a stranger arrives. Soon as they get out of the car you have the wagging start that nearly bends her in half.
We’ve worried before if an officer came to the house she’d get shot because of her size and “alarm mode” she enters when anyone strange comes over. Yet once she is close to them it’s clear she’s just a loud mouthed baby.
Still, if I were an officer and saw Dixie running at me like that I would believe she was after me although she’s totally harmless.
You just put your left or right arm up depending on whether you are left or right handed, on the one in about a several hundred thousand chance you MIGHT get bit.
There are no domestic dogs that can kill an armed, prepared man unless they are trained to do it.
How many of us have dogs that are trained to attack in a military type manner, none of us?
All dogs will attempt to intimidate rather than all out attack; it is their nature to protect their property from unknown invaders, that’s why we have them.
Plus they are better company and more trustworthy than 99.999% of the so called human race.