Thursday, August 11, 2011

Aggression in dogs.....part deux?

Whoever thinks that it's ALL training/environment doesn't have enough dog experience to even answer the questions on here about "What should I name my cwute new wittle puppy!?!?". If that were true we could train Dalmations to be police dogs and shave off a few thousand dollars from importing working line GSDs from Europe. If that were true I could take a Golden Retriever out Mountain Lion hunting with me. It's not going to happen. Pitbulls fight because they have decent-high prey drive and TONS of fight drive. Fight Drive is the drive Police Service Dogs are in when they find a suspect hiding in a dark basement and move in for the bite. Fight drive is the will to engage in physical combat and the courage and confidence to believe you'll win if you fight hard enough. Well bred Pitbulls have TONS of fight drive, I'd rather trust a 40 pound game bred pitbull with my life than a 100 pound American Showline GSD simply because I know which one will be there when I need it, without a doubt. Pitbulls would make great PSDs but that won't happen anytime soon because everybody believes what they see on TV...And as far as the argument about well bred pitbulls not being naturally aggressive towards humans...I agree as I've seen that first hand but, with good training I believe they could be trained to do man work with no problems. Notice I said good training, not backyard I think I'm tough with my pitbull mutt guard dog training. (I felt I needed to say that before the Pitbull lovers attacked me!). Dogs who've been bred to solve problems with aggression are more likely to use aggression to solve their problems! Sorry to the PETA "All dogs are babies" people but that's common sense! Let's take an untrained, well bred Rottweiler and an untrained well bred Golden Retriever...now have a stranger with a bamboo stick come up screaming and yelling pop the dog on the rear end with the stick. 99% of the time the Golden is going to bolt, 99% of the time the Rottweiler is going to A: Take a defensive posture and hold it's ground daring you to try it again or B: Is going to try to see if it can wrap it's entire mouth around some part of your anatomy. That's 100% genetics. Then again there are the poorly bred examples of the Golden who'd bite a person for no reason, and the badly bred Rottweiler who wouldn't defend himself from attack much less you, it's owner which is also genetics! Anyway, I believe I've gotten my point across!

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