I should have said "large aggressive dogs".
My grandmother’s brother had two little mongrels smaller than Beagles.
Those dogs were the -only- dogs I kept my “man stopper” trained Dobe away from.
The bitch would prance in front of him, distracting him and the male would sneak in from behind and try to hamstring him.
As soon as the male had a leg in his mouth, the female would stop prancing and go for the throat.
“Large” doesn’t count for jack-squat, sometimes.
FWIW, my 100 lb Euro Dobe runs like hell from the 30 pound Portuguese Podengo Medio when they’re in the back yard.
She goes for the hamstrings to -force- him into playing whether he wants to or not.
She’s 18” tall, he’s 30” tall.
It ain’t the size of the dog in the fight.
It’s the size of the fight in the dog.
He may be T Rex but she’s a Velociraptor.