I just sat through a you tube, rap infested video of the 10 best guard dogs. Their #1 is the Caucasus Sheepdog (a very formidable beast). Number 6 was the Pit Bull - so much for the breed standard’s warning the dog should never be human aggressive.
They left off a bunch of the LGD’s of Eastern Europe in favor of mastiff type dogs. Heh, they’d be shocked if they try an Anatolian Shepherd or a Sharplaninatz
I’m thinking the PBs on there solely for the ‘intimidation factor’.
*Every* PB I’ve ever met was an initial barking “scary beast” who was on their back asking for belly skritches 5 minutes later.
I definitely would not consider them for my own ‘guard dog’ purposes.
[unless of course I was concerned about other dogs robbing me and then, I *might* consider them]
There’s tons of PBs in yards everywhere around here and frankly, they don’t impress me much as ‘guard dogs’ but then, I’m not phobic about the breed.
The CS and Anatolians are awesome dogs but not very practical *here* because of their scarcity.
[FWIW, I disregard any “rap infested” video out of hand..if that’s their soundtrack of choice, I can pretty much bet that very little of their ‘wisdom’ is useful]
In ScH and protection dog training, PBs are not the dogs of choice and more work goes into training them because they’re very much *not* ‘human aggressive’.
IMO, if you have to over-ride a dog’s natural instincts to -make- it a ‘guard dog’, you’re wasting time.
There’s a really good but unintentionally funny book that guarantees you can make an “attack dog” out of *any* breed...and they further prove it by training Poodles, Cockers and whatnot.
Sure, theoretically it *can* be done but who has that kind of time to waste?
;D