American Pit Bull Terrier
American Staffordshire Terrier
Rottweiler
Doberman
PressaCanario / Pero de Pressa Canario
Dogo Argentino
Cane Corso
Fila Brasileiro
Tosa
Ca de Bou
Mallorquin Bulldog
My sister was a flight attendant and she said that Scotties
were the worst. Very territorial and the owners tended to
spoil them and not discipline them well.
Sadly, foolish dog owners don’t take smaller breeds as seriously as larger breeds. I always feel sorry for a small dog which is convinced *it* is the alpha in the family pack—because Alpha Male or Alpha Female won’t take the lead so that the dog isn’t convinced it *has* to do so.
Scotties, and other small breeds can be foul little monsters, and biters. Personally... I’ve never met a Pomeranian that wasn’t just a nasty yippy little turd.
But... Unlike pits... While they may nip and fear-bite, they don’t rip throats out. I fully understand that there are some great pits out there that are wonderful dogs. Yet there is something that I have yet to see a pit owner acknowledge— and I think it is a fair point— that the fighting breeds fight differently. A lab may bite, but they usually bite to frighten and then stop. Fighting breeds instinctively fight to kill. There’s a world of difference between the dog that nips at a child’s hand because they pulled too hard on a tail, and the dog that gets a vice-grip on a throat and doesn’t let go.
I do believe that all dogs have the potential to be awesome companions, but I think it is said to acknowledge that different breeds have different traits, and different instincts, and require different training and sometimes different precautions.