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Originally Posted by pornlaw
We have a Rottie puppy that's only 7 months. Sweetest dog I've ever had. Great with everyone, especially kids. And good with other dogs & animals.
But we are socializing the dog every chance we get. Since we got him he's been going everywhere with me & my wife. He's already about 70lbs probably on the way to 120 (his parents were both 120lbs+) I can see the reaction he gets from strangers in public though. One guy literally walked away from his baby stroller with his daughter in it when Moose got too close.
It's all in the training. It's a shame dogs like Pits, Rotties & Shepards get the reputation that they do but I get it. They are powerful dogs and in the wrong hands they can easily kill. The gun analogy is spot on.
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I couldn't agree more - I have a very big Shepherd, but she is socialized - for obvious reasons now, she hates other dogs, but she isn't around them either but she loves most all people she has been in contact with and she is in a very high traffic area in my yard so that she sees and meets people.... dogs she hates because she's been on the tail end of a few attempts on her, but for general purposes, she loves most people.
But it's all in training, if you don't socialize a dog, they are same as people, they don't know how to act around them... TRAINING them to attack anything that comes near, that's on the owner, but sadly people don't have the chance or time to find out how they have been trained and the general rule is they are all trained to be bad - and it's sad!