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To: allmendream

With the combination she had, it’s not a surprise. Just consider that one of the dogs has an aggression for other dogs and she tried to stop a fight. I have tons of experience with lots of working type dogs, I did bitework with one last night.

You should be smart enough to realize that when one of these dogs ends up as an adoption, odds are if it’s a shepherd, dobe, presa, pit bull, rotty, it is there because it has bitten someone. That’s just a fact of life. Mixing four of them together is just ignorance IMO. I have no use for a truly aggressive dog, you are way better off to have a trained dog that will hit on command if needed because you are the one making the decisions. That’s also why you don’t hear the horror stories about malinois, dutch shepherds, working german shepherds, because they are taught to be social, and that the handler makes the decisions. They will bite and take someone down, but are really in their mind playing a game when they do it, some of these others are not that way.


33 posted on 08/17/2012 6:58:57 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: nobamanomore
For myself - I like Bull Mastiffs as guard dogs. They are very loving and loyal with very much an attitude that they are there to PROTECT you - not to dominate or compete with you.

Moreover when they do “hit” it is with a mind to knock the threat over and SUBDUE it - by holding it by the neck. They are not bred to tear into the threat (as fighting dogs are) - but to subdue and hold.

But I doubt if there are nearly as Bull Mastiffs available for “rescue” because they have bitten someone they were not supposed to bite - as there are Pit Bulls and (apparently) Presas.

36 posted on 08/17/2012 7:04:08 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: nobamanomore

That was my first thought - she tried to break up two of the dogs that were fighting each other. They probably didn’t even mean to bite her, and were trying to get to each other. It’s NOT a place you want to be in no matter what kind of dogs they are.


51 posted on 08/17/2012 8:05:13 AM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: nobamanomore

I work in rescue and that is total BS.

Are kids who end up in foster care ‘bad’ kids?

Most often kids and dogs who end up in the system have one thing in common — families who abandoned them.


87 posted on 08/18/2012 7:57:38 AM PDT by dervish (ABO)
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