Then there’s the flip side. Friend of mine used to raise and train Irish Wolfhounds. She lived in a bad neighborhood.
One day walking her dog with her, some gangbanger thought it would be fun to sick hit pitbull on her very well behaved Wolfhound. Idiot. When the pitbull charged, she had enough time to warn the banger to call it off. Once. He laughed, so she gave the “attack” command.
Patientiently sitting Wolfhound lept at the pitbull and broke its back with one swipe of a truly massive paw. Dead before it hit the ground. Wolfhound calmly returned to her.
Banger went nuts, of course. That is, until the Wolfhound let loose a truly phenomenal growl. About made me pizz my pants, and I wasn’t the target. Pretty sure the banger did.
We calmly walked off. She moved not long after that. (This was 20 years ago.)
She really did have that dog well trained.
PS Biggest problem with that dog is that it thought it was still a puppy sized lapdog. Ooof.
Cool story.
Sight hounds have an entirely different “kill bite” than other dogs.
While “normal” dogs go right for the under-throat, sight hounds use a top-of-the-neck/spine bite.
[much like a big cat does]
They were created to hunt and that’s how they kill.
[ironically, they’re not “fighters” at all but they are very efficient killers]
My Dobermann was “raised” by 4 Ibizan Hounds and 1 Portuguese Podengo Medio and he has learned their technique very well.
I don’t even think he knows the “normal” way.
Kudos to the Wolfhound.