Does something need to be done about dogs?

That XL dog is probably the only dog I wouldn't go and say "hi" to and give a stroke if the owners said it was OK. If I had my dog with me.. I'd probably turn around!

Imagine if it wanted to give chase. Even the owner wouldn't have a chance holding it back.
 
413x said:
Imagine if it wanted to give chase. Even the owner wouldn't have a chance holding it back.
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To be fair, there are a lot of large dogs that an owner would struggle to hold back if they decided to go mad, things like GSD, Rottweilers, etc which have been around for centuries without causing any major problems. (Rottweilers are insanely intelligent and make good working dogs, as well as pets) but for the most part - these dogs are owned by responsible people.

For me, with the XLs, it's a unique situation where you have a dog which has been bred specifically to be as frightening as possible, so it attracts the type of owner who just doesn't care. They don't want a companion to love and spend time with, they just want something they can weaponise on the streets.

I think if you took an XL, trained it properly for the first critical 6 months, did socialisation as a full-time job (which you have to do, with a large breed) it would probably be fine... It would look scary - but it probably would be fine..

It's just the type of breed that attracts the worst type of owner and in the final analysis - it has become a problem breed because of this.
 
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Screeeech said:
To be fair, there are a lot of large dogs that an owner would struggle to hold back if they decided to go mad, things like GSD, Rottweilers, etc which have been around for centuries without causing any major problems. (Rottweilers are insanely intelligent and make good working dogs, as well as pets) but for the most part - these dogs are owned by responsible people.

For me, with the XLs, it's a unique situation where you have a dog which has been bred specifically to be as frightening as possible, so it attracts the type of owner who just doesn't care. They don't want a companion to love and spend time with, they just want something they can weaponise on the streets.

I think if you took an XL, trained it properly for the first critical 6 months, did socialisation as a full-time job (which you have to do, with a large breed) it would probably be fine... It would look scary - but it probably would be fine..

It's just the type of breed that attracts the worst type of owner and in the final analysis - it has become a problem breed because of this.
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Caveat, assuming the dog is genetically sound and not an interbred nutter of coursae, or worse, interbred to bring forward aggressive traits that cannot be controlled...
 
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Screeeech said:
To be fair, there are a lot of large dogs that an owner would struggle to hold back if they decided to go mad, things like GSD, Rottweilers, etc which have been around for centuries without causing any major problems. (Rottweilers are insanely intelligent and make good working dogs, as well as pets) but for the most part - these dogs are owned by responsible people.

For me, with the XLs, it's a unique situation where you have a dog which has been bred specifically to be as frightening as possible, so it attracts the type of owner who just doesn't care. They don't want a companion to love and spend time with, they just want something they can weaponise on the streets.

I think if you took an XL, trained it properly for the first critical 6 months, did socialisation as a full-time job (which you have to do, with a large breed) it would probably be fine... It would look scary - but it probably would be fine..

It's just the type of breed that attracts the worst type of owner and in the final analysis - it has become a problem breed because of this.
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Yeah I agree.
And it isn't usually the dogs fault. But it's unpolicable. So if you see a dog like this.. Your mind instantly jumps to the type of person who has it. And for breeds like this, there's a good liklihood that it is someone you certainly wouldn't want with that dog.

And you can't take the chance.
 
Minusorange said:
And that's okay ?
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Tbh its not unusual for a dogs to sometimes have a strop at one another, especially if its a young dog and they don't know their arse from their elbow. Most of the time a dog will get told off and then learn from it, if its an older dog then well they should have trained it properly at the start. But then we come back around to stupid owners.
 
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