I've had them for almost 50 years and even the most cruelly abused rescues never so much as raised a lip to me.
Dobies...yes - same here. BUT ours did not like CATS...
Years ago we had a friend come over who thought he had to be cautious of coming into the house with our Doberman there.
He sat at our kitchen table drinking coffee and visiting and our Doberman crawled under the table where he could snuggle up and make sure the friend could reach him to pet him. He had an Afghan Wolfhound and didn’t think he’d cotton to a different breed. He was pretty surprised, I guess to make it out of the house with all limbs intact.
I think the dogs in Italy were tired of being cooped up with COVID 19 regs. I wonder how much exercise they got. Beautiful breed of animal...