"George" george@least wrote in message
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That's the key. Owner's the influence.

We've a large but well-behaved German shepherd, and some of my daughter's
college friends from Chicago wouldn't come close even when he was showing
all the "friendly" signs. Reason was "where we come from the only people
who have dogs like that are people who want vicious dogs."

Personally, I believe the larger the dog, the better he must behave.


This entire thread boarders on a religious war so I was going to stay out of
the thick of it, but at one point while reading all of the overstatements on
both sides of the issue the thought did occur to me that it was not that
long ago that German Shepherds and Dobermans were spoken of exactly the way
the Pit Bull is today. Especially the Doberman - it was common folk lore
and fire talk to rag on how they turned on their owners with no warning or
provocation. Stay tuned - someone is yet bound to introduce the Rottweiller
into this thread...

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-Mike-