What would you suggest would be a good way to protect your puppy from those vile boys roving up and down the street taunting him, upsetting his tender sensibilities?
Never mind. You keep inserting new criteria which doesn’t fit my original point.
I tried to describe your normal family pet -— which also serves as a watch dog. I dare say all of us would soon be rid of an animal that showed aggresion toward neighborhood children. And, in my example, the perps were grown-—not children-—and they were torturing the animal.
I wonder how many of us could predict what our dog would do in the circumstances I described——especially if he thought he was protecting his “family”.