Teresa,
YOU !, petite ! Just from reading your Posts, I thought you were about 7' tall, 200 lbs, and had Flaming Red Hair and Eyes !
But, on a more serious note...
This Thread is rather disturbing to me. I've never been/had an attack perpetrated against me or my Dogs, by a Dog of any size. I'm not petite, and actually rather gruff. Maybe thats to my advantage. What's really bothering is, that given how much I love them, I would put myself in harms way before them, in an instant, and therein lies the problem.
So far in the annals of History, there has been no Species which can deal with the wrath of the Human Intellect. The thought of having to harm any animal, in my/our defense, is very distasteful to me.