Posted on 06/26/2008 10:18:39 AM PDT by Oyarsa
June 26, 2008 -- Little dogs -- think Chihuahuas and Dachshunds -- tend to be feisty, while certain breeds, like Golden and Labrador Retrievers, are as mellow as their reputations suggest, found a new study that identified the most and least aggressive common dog breeds.
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I love seeing pics of your dogs..
Is that ruby laying flat in the grass? ADORABLE!
Mine are kinda like the Anti-Feisty!
susie
*doggie ping*
Our Rat Terrier doesn't think he has completed his daily terrier work until he has been flipped several times by both our GSD and our mid-sized classic mutt. The Shepherd has figured out ways to handicap himself in order to keep the wrestling match even with someone about 1/5 his size. It is most entertaining to watch.
Cuties, both of them.
Chis are so affectionate and smart.
What a beautiful picture!! Did you take it? Great composition!
He's a Mountain Feist, you see. Squirrels are his game, and he plays for keeps!
Me too. Or as they used to be called a Fiest :>} Some persons still know them as such and call them that.
One of the more impressive feats of dachsund-dom, was a male dachshund who managed to impregnate a full sized female German shepherd.
This utterly mystified the owners until they saw the dachshund chasing the shepherd around the yard, nipping at her back heels, until she lay down to protect them with her front legs. Bam.
I was reminded of the old joke about a circus dwarf who was accused of raping the circus fat woman. When the judge asked her how in the world, she said he used a bucket.
The judge said it was ridiculous, that she could have kicked the bucket out from underneath him any time she wanted, so found the dwarf not guilty.
However, looking at the grinning dwarf, the judge had his suspicions. So he told him about double jeopardy and that he was safe from prosecution, but the judge still suspected the dwarf had done it, so he asked him how.
“I used the bucket, just like she said, your honor. But I didn’t stand on it. I put it over her head and hung on to the handle!”
I've owned smooth and longhaired dachshunds, and chihuahuas. The real reason little dogs are mean is because their humans laugh at them when they growl and snarl, and thereby encourage aggression. When , say , a rottweiler puppy growls at either a human or another dog, his human is apt to scold or even smack him to discourage such behavior. But when a dachshund puppy growls at even his own human, the response is apt to be,"Ah, isn't that cute? He thinks he's so fierce. Look, now he's raising his hackles at me-isn't he just adorable when he's mad? Come here, let me pick you up and give you a hug-awwww, he just severed my jugular vein! He's getting to be a big dog!"
Little dogs just aren't taken seriously when they act aggressively-and maybe it irritates them, to be laughed at when they're trying to intimidate.
Incidentally, the smooth dachshund is the true dachshund. They are proverbial for being aggressive, manipulative, domineering, and too damn smart for their or their human's good . The longhaired dachshie was created by breeding dachshies to spaniels-they are the sweetest, gentlest, most submissive of dachshunds. (I also think they're not as bright.) The wire haired dachshund was created by breeding the snausages to terriers-they're said to be even worse than smooth dachshunds in terms of aggressiveness and personality-I find that hard to believe.
Somewhere in the ancient FR articles is an account of a weiner dog who took on a german shepherd and an irish setter. the dachshund lost an eye and needed 20 stitches; the setter needed almost 100 stitches-and the shepherd needed to be euthanized on scene by the police responding to the disturbance because the cute little dachshie had gotten underneath and disemboweled him.
I know what you mean. My ex had two Maltese (Malteses?) that were full grown when I got my Shepherd at 7 weeks. As a puppy, he started playing with the Maltese as "equals" and as he rapidly grew, he seemed to adjust his energy level accordingly when dealing with them.
LOL, well, at least you can SEE it easily with the tufts, not so with some other breeds like the Pugs---no tufts there....
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