I can see a German Shepherd tearing into someone.
See “Game of Thrones” and ‘Summer’ the wolf at Bran's bedside.
Luckily with a Bull Mastiff - they are bred to subdue.
That would be an interesting thing to do to train a Bull Mastiff. But the claws could really do some damage.
Tragic story.... I hate knowing it so STOP READING THIS NOW if you are sensitive to a sad dog story......YOU WERE WARNED.
Bull Mastiff in backyard. Halloween kids party next door. Kid gets confused and opens gate to wrong back yard and does the kid running shriek though Bull Mastiff's backyard.
Bull Mastiff does what it is bred to do - and lucky for that kid it was a Bull Mastiff and not another breed of dog.
Dog Barked (”roar”) and then tackled the kid and held him until its owners got there. Kid got a one inch crape along the cranium. Scalp wounds bleed profusely. Parents were quite upset. Dog was put down. :(
My dog hated children.Directly attributed to two vicious little demons I caught throwing rocks at him while he was outside in our very securely fenced back yard.
Every neighborhood has at least one of “those families” around.
Their incredibly stupid father thought I was insane, when I told him his children were courting certain death, if he failed to controll their behavior.
(And yes, after I discovered what my stupid neighbors ignorant children were doing, I could never allow my dog outside in our very secure back yard, without direct supervision, and we could never allow him to be around children again, at all.)
Sigh.
Yes, I value human life above animals.
I taught my own child to respect other peoples property and pets, especially dogs.
If a dog attacks and harms a child, even under extreme provocation, the dog, and also the owner, is at fault.