Pity that some people cannot seem to grasp that simple concept.
I have, in the past, trained protection Dobes.
Had I treated them as “people” rather than working with their completely predictable canid instincts, I'm sure I would have been eaten a long time ago.
:)
I confess I ‘baby’ Odin a lot out of my love for him but the second he acts inappropriately in any situation, we instantly go into “master/dog” mode.
He gets no behavioral “breaks” just because I love him more than my own skin.
He is [as are all dogs] capable of doing damage and I cannot forget that for one nanosecond.
Making sure he never gets into trouble is -my- responsibility, not his.
He is incapable of making inerrant ‘human’ conscious moral/social decisions so I must make them for him, always.
The blame or celebration of whatever he is or does rests squarely on my shoulders.