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Originally Posted by Maximo   Max and I were charged and jumped on by numerous off-leash large dogs let out to roam our neighborhood, and I believe this is the source of his problem. I had to pick him up for his safety and I could not hide my fear.
I don't care what people say about my dog because I know he is well-trained in every other regard and I get to enjoy him safe and sound the 95% of the day that we aren't walking in the neighborhood looking over our shoulders for the next off-leash dog.
No amount of training of my little dog is going to make it safe to run into a loose, angry, untrained 200-pound mastiff. |
Oh, totally!
If a dog wants to attack/kill another dog, it doesn't matter if the dog on the other end is being an angel or whatnot.
But I do think it helps to have a dog who knows and understands doggy manners. A dog who politely greets a big dog, who approaches non-threatening, sniffing, calmly, etc, has a much better chance of being accepted by a maybe-grumpy dog than one who goes charging up in the face of a big dog and BITES them multiple times. A lot of dogs simply won't put up with that and clearly the Pit in the case of that one thread did not have the patience for it.
Clearly, the humans were at fault here. Because I am assuming they knew of their little dogs attitude to begin with and things should have been done differently. Not to mention that Pits are known to be dog aggressive.
A lot of terriers have this bigger-than-tho attitude, like you said... it's what made them such good ratters!
But I think it's just a matter of someone trying to control it over just laughing about it all the time. Don't get me wrong... I can laugh about it too and find it funny, I am not the type to be like "WOW you need to work on that!" like a snob... but at the same time, it's really a dangerous situation. My dads JRT wants to eat every dog that walks by our campsite when we are in the RV and it's a super annoying habit but she's never been trained otherwise... I really wish my dad and stepmom would work on it more. After an hour of barking, clawing at the glass, and eating the blankets she lays on out of anger, it's NOT very funny. I have met a lot of and read about a lot of truly dog aggressive dogs who are perfectly capable of walking by dogs, etc, and you'd never know they are DA... because their owners worked on it.
I also don't see what's so amusing about dogs attacking vacuums and brooms, etc... at first, I can see how it'd be funny, for sure... I mean, you can't help but laugh... but I see it all the time posted on here about people thinking it's just hysterical and don't seem to want to fix it or change it?? I dunno, I just personally would not ever live with a dog like that w/o attempting to work on it. I also don't find constant leash pulling very funny... yeah so what if a 5lb dog can't pull very hard, it's still annoying to me if I wanna take my dog for a walk, I don't want it pulling me the whole time, unless I tell it it's okay. I guess it's just every owners preference. I suppose some may find it rude how Jackson just jumps on every piece of furniture he wants in our house but it's something I don't mind, so every house tolerates different things and stuff.
I guess it just boils down to HUMANS, lol. We are the stupid fools.
