[I want to know]

Neighbor Sharon Everitt recalled a different side of Matthew Winkler, that of an extremely concerned father. She and her husband, Dan, had a couple of unpleasant conversations with him about their house dog, a Rottweiler, and a stray Labrador retriever they kept outside, being in the Winklers' yard.

She said he was afraid the dogs would harm his girls and insisted the Everitts keep them contained. She assured him they were harmless.

"He was a little brisk, direct, aggressive," Sharon Everitt said.

I agree with your statement, especially since one of the dogs was a Rottweiler. From the article above I see it as a father being protective of his children. However, on Cosby's show last night, Everitt wasn't as kind in describing Winkler's actions.

[yukong]

well, having had an idiot neighbors rottweiler go after my 2 daughters when they were little, I would have done, and will do in the future, the same thing. The only thing that saved my daughters was our dachshund, who ran in between the kids and the rottweiler and nearly gave her life. She was very protective of the kids, and when that rottweiler went after them, she went after him and he nearly killed her. The idiot neighbor had to beat the rottweiler with a stick to get it to turn my dachshund loose. I have no use for rottweilers and pit bulls. Would just as soon shoot any of them.