In article , Rick Cook wrote:


Doug Miller wrote:

In article ,
(Greg) wrote:
The most popular breeds
tend to be overbred and thereby create some nasty animals.

Truer words were never spoken. Bad dogs are caused by bad breeders ans bad
owners.

Up to a point, yes. The fact still remains that some breeds are much more
easily made into bad dogs than others. You'd have to work at it a *lot*
harder
to make an attack dog out of a golden retriever, than out of a pit bull.

Well no. Or not nearly as much as you think. Retrievers aren't terriers, but
they can be
trained to be just as nasty and aggressive as any other kind of dog. They don't
have the pit
bull's reflexes or strength so they wouldn't be quite as much of a threat, but
it absolutely
would not be for lack of trying.

I did not say that goldies could not be made "nasty and aggressive".
I said that it's much harder to do with that breed than with pit bulls.
Not impossible, just much more difficult.

If you dispute that, if you really believe that a golden retriever can be made
into an attack dog as easily as can a pit bull, then your comments on this
subject do not deserve to be taken seriously.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

Get a copy of my NEW AND IMPROVED TrollFilter for NewsProxy/Nfilter
by sending email to autoresponder at filterinfo-at-milmac-dot-com
You must use your REAL email address to get a response.