There is NOTHING on this Earth more fear inspiring than a small dog!
I was walking my German Shepherd, a fearless squirrel terminator, living tissue over metal endo-skeleton, down the street of my neighborhood one day when, all of a sudden as we passed this roadside bush next to a mailbox, this 5 lbs. barking cerberus made itself known.
My fearless shepherd literally teleported behind me. The move was so fast that her leash remained in its original position sans dog for about a good 3 seconds before time actually caught up with my teleporting shepherd, and her leash magically returned to her collar behind me.
Luckily, the owner of the cerberus hound came and rescued us, otherwise we surely would have been doomed.
Little dog is boss, that is all.
I don’t know what it is - it’s weird. She’s strong, but not that strong.
That being said, when I was a boy, I had a dachshund who was attacked by a huge shepherd/lab mix from next door (who had killed two other stray dogs and a couple of cats) He jumped the fence into our yard.
My girl curled up in a ball (phalanx style) and took one bite in the side from the enemy (a few stitches fixed her right up). I was running toward both of them when I saw my dog lash out - quick as a flash, and popped out the other dog’s eye - which she ate.
He ran away, never came back and the owner never said a word. She also saved my mother while she was gardening one day by killing a copperhead - grabbed it before my mother even saw it, shook it, and took off it’s head...which she didn’t eat.
I’ve always had dachshunds ever since...or rather they’ve had me.