How about a Presa Canario...?
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Posted on 07/08/2008 10:10:23 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
Little men seem to pick more fights too!
How about a Presa Canario...?
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Just my opinion.
Dachshunds are long-lived, easy to train (except for SOME things), and very funny dogs, but I'm too set in my ways today to have another. Most of my doxies were 15 pounds: not quite Miniature—not quite Standard. I called them "Sub-Standard". :)
My only bite from my "eight-dachshund-career" came at the food dish when I, as a teen, was teasing the dog into some fierce growling. My Dad scolded the dog and I, embarrassed for the teasing AND the dog's inappropriate scolding, got a Band-Aid.
It's one thing to be injured by "scizzors-jaws", and quite another by "pliers-jaws".
Dachsunds are great sentinals, and my "Franz" once grabbed a male Rhodesian Ridgeback by the throat, while the Ridgeback looked embarrassed. I'm certain that their brains never register that they are smaller than the wolves they are descended from.
I guess it depends on the dog, but the two boxers I have been acquainted with have been the sweetest dogs.
I've walked across to the other side of the street when a person's unleashed dachshund growled and charged me.
This was after I had been bitten by two medium-sized dogs that had been allowed to roam free and then someone had to track down the dogs to make sure they didn't have rabies.
Yeah, that’s the one!
He is high-strung, but not mean. He loves people, and plays well with others. Just don't make a move toward me or family. He will react!
I go walking on these WV mountain tops, and he goes running...
I luv my dog!
My dog, Spot and "Baby"
My dog’s a pedophile. She only likes little boy dogs.
I’d love to post a picture of “Shorty”, but I haven’t the equipment to do so. Not being even mildly ‘puter literate is an impediment as well.
Sorry.
1.) A ENORMOUS German Sherpherd named Sigfried...when I lived in Japan, three doors down from me. It was the hugest, most UNPREDICTABLE dog. I was not a kid to be terrified, but that dog...it was huge. HUGE. If I had to guess, I would say it had to be at LEAST 140 lbs. Whenever my friend and I walked in the house past his dog, I would keep both eyes on it, because it would keep both eyes on me. It lunged at my brother and bit him in the throat requiring stiches. They used to exercise the dog (This was on the Yokosuka Navy Base) by tying a leash to the side mirror on the car and driving the car.
One day, the father (a plastic surgeon) was walking the dog near some dry docks (These are among the largest in the world, at least back then) and could handle the largest aircraft carriers...the huge Japanese carrier Taiho, largest in WWII was built there) As they approached the dry docks, all of a sudden, the dog just took off and ran. The guy had his hand entwined in the leash, and was dragged on the ground behind the dog. The dog ran straight for the dry dock and leaped in...I think it was 80-100 feet deep, if my memory serves me correctly. The guy, being dragged like Indiana Jones behind it, managed to get his wrist out of the leash before he was dragged in to what would have been a certain death for him.
The dog, miraculously, survived unhurt. A Stars and Stripes reporter came down and took a picture of the dog standing all alone, a tiny speck in the middle of this huge, empty drydock. It made the front page of the Stars and Stripes the next day. My family talked about this for years...just amazing.
2.) The other dog I feared was a HUGE Fila Brasilerio...apparently, a non-standard breed that is custom bred simply for its aggessiveness. Think a 180 pound aggressive pit bull. Our friends, who lived in a bad part of town had their triple decker broken into five times, so they got this dog. We would visit them, and there were strings of dried dog slobber all over the walls. I didn't trust the dog for a second, even though it never exhibited any aggressive behavior towards me, but...my wife was actively afraid of it and resisted even going to visit them because of it. I never felt comfortable in its presence, ever. It was huge, slobbery, had the stripes of a tiger on it, and was simply alien looking. It looked somewhat like this:
3.) When I was in the second and third grade while living in Virginia, I walked to school (what second or third grader does THAT now?) I was only a five minute walk though...but I had to pass a house with an Airdaile...that would lie in wait for me and ambush me. It never hurt me, but scared the hell out of me. I learned how to deal with it by throwing rocks at it, and it eventually left me alone.
As for dachshunds...I don't like the ones that are ill behaved. On of my best friends as a kid had three of them, all with German names that I cannot recall except for Max. They would noisily attack you when you walked in, then settle down...until you moved a muscle, then all three would rush you in unison barking fiercely. Then they would attack you when you left. They would crap all over the cellar of the house where we used to play ping pong, and I recall once having to retrieve the ping pong ball from under a chest of drawers that obviously had a bunch of dessicated dog turds simply swept under it. They were the most disgusting creatures. Simply disgusting and annoying.
Probably wanted to lick the person to death. Boxers are totally misunderstood. Their growl sounds ferocious yet they just want to play. They look really mean (except when they are a pup) but have a great heart. We have had two boxers after having various others. I will never have anything else.
We have two sweet little miniature dachshunds who are sisters out of the same litter. They are wonderful, noisy watchdogs who are very protective of their home, whether here at home or out in our camper. They sleep with us completely under the covers because they’re so cold-natured.
They have no idea they’re so small; they think they’re killers. They love people but regard most other living things as prey items. Birds, squirrels, rabbits, cats, snakes—it doesn’t matter, they’d go after them if we ever let them off leash. They are tough, strong, smart, and willful little dogs.
The last time I took them to the vet I asked her what breeds she considered the most aggressive based on her 20+ years of practice. Her answer: chihuahuas, doxies and Jack Russells.
Thankfully, I have never encountered one of those. Talk about a ‘devil dog’.
Mine is a Belgian Shepherd mix. He’s been a great dog so far. Good with all kids and ‘almost’ all dogs :-)
My MIL has the meanest (and fattest) Jack Russell I’ve ever met. It HATES children. My MIL is convinced that she “just wants to play,” when she bares her teeth and charges. Once, it went for my (now seven year old) daughter, and I launched it like a shotput.
I have a rottie and he’s a big lap dog basically. Loves everyone and cries like a baby anytime he’s not allowed to watch after new puppies in the neighborhood. But he’s very protective of all the children in the neighborhood too.
I had a cocker spaniel that had a similiar story!
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