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Originally Posted by Mephistopheles Janx
THAT SAID.
If you are gonna get a dog like a Pitty, Mastiff, Cane Corso, Komondor, or any type of dog that is big, muscly, and has a strong sense of preservation... you HAVE to train them. If you have kids... you HAVE to train the kids how to behave around that type of dog.
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We've spent as much time training the kids as we have the dog. And the rott loves those kids but he does have an edge to him that labradors don't have.
We've spent thousands on formal training for him and he's a damn well trained dog, but he has a willful streak that most dogs just don't have.
I really have to get on my wife at times to not let the damn dog buffalo her because sometimes he'll give it a thought. He doesn't really lock horns with me anymore but he did until he was about 2 and a half.
Oddly, my guess is that the Pit in question here started in a semi-protective manner. I don't know if he thought he was protecting one kid from the other, or the mother from the kids, but for most dogs like that it isn't a menacing or aggressive instinct that kicks off an incident like this. It starts as a protective thing and then if someone doesn't have the personality to step in and seize the initiative, they just kinda black out and lash out at everything. No question in my mind that one of them was something of a ringleader.
This is also why I won't have 2 working dogs. I don't need one 'feeding' the other one. 1 working dog, one sporting dog. They're just going to be wired so differently that in the event a fuse gets tripped somehow, I only have one dog to deal with and in all probability, I have the 2nd one trying to help me out as best he can.
But shit man, 8 years of no incidents only to have something like that happen - that just ****ing sucks. Something had to happen or there had to have been signs in the past. That just doesn't make a lot of sense.