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I have a small female Rottweiler (80 pounds) and a large male Rottweiler (140 pounds).
My dogs are young, (1.5 years) and I've had them since they were very young. They were raised with a baby, and taugh to lay still so they didn't hit the kid with a paw by mistake. Because of my 'job' I can spend all day, every day with them... They are perhaps the most gentle dogs I've ever seen.
All of this being said, I walk them leashed and the male on a corrective collar .. All the time. It's not that I think they'd ever do anything, but .. What IF they did?
I've witnessed the male dog pull small trees out of the ground, bite through full soup cans to get the soup, and crush 2x4's in short order ... If for any reason, he ever got ahold of a woman, child or most men, and decided to try to do dammage, it would be devestating. This makes it MY responsibility to keep them leashed, always. It should be clear cut. If you owned a gun, you wouldn't leave it loaded laying out on the driveway .. I hope anyway.
What really pisses me off, is when small unleashed dogs creep up on my dogs. A small, unleashed, terrier once charged me growling, and was promptly picked up by the back of the neck and thrown 6 feet by the male dog. The owner of this specific dog, that was in a fenced yard with the gate wide open had the nerve to yell at ME. If your dog gets attacked by a leashed animal, that it approached .. Too fucking bad.
Daymon
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