“That said, these dog shootings by police are becoming ridiculous. The were threatened by a Labrador? Most labs would probably lead the cops or any other strangers to the drugs rather than attack them.”
I had a black lab that was the sweetest thing you ever met. If you tried to hurt my boy, you would draw back a stump. No stranger ever tried coming through the door without us welcoming them. Not if they were going to stay upright. Sweetest damn dog you ever saw. My boys rode her like a pony, pulled her ears and wrestled with her all day, she never nipped at them ever...dogs can be funny that way, like people. Pretty hard to generalize. I still miss her, she’s been gone twenty years.
True. Labs are not bred to be guard dogs, but they are protective of their families.
The best guard dog I ever had was a mutt (part German Shepard, part Chow and part Rhodesian Ridge Back). Whenever a stranger approached the hair on her back stood up, she growled, bared her teeth and looked like she was about to lunge and rip out the strangers' throat.