It is also a dog with a ferocious bite. Around people, it is best to have a bird dog, whose bite is soft enough to retrieve birds. Why a cocker is good to have around kids. It is one thing to have a dog that CAN serve as a weapon, another to have one to serve as a pet. If it can do this amount of damage, keep it on a chain or indoors. As for the owner of these dogs, he is an idiot, unless he really was using these dogs to guard his stash.
As for retrievers having a soft bite, ask solosmoke about the dogs that attacked him. Or about the golden that bit a 3 year olds ear off. Or about the fact that labs are the breed that attacks humans the most in the U.S.
Punishing the owners solves the problem. Making the breed out to be special doesn't.
See the "pit Bull Placebo" link in post 30. Shall we also say that those who live near other people should not own Bloodhounds and Bulldogs? A Great Dane has a pretty serious bite and some real mass.
As for retrievers having a soft bite, ask solosmoke about the dogs that attacked him. Or about the golden that bit a 3 year olds ear off. Or about the fact that labs are the breed that attacks humans the most in the U.S.
Punishing the owners solves the problem. Making the breed out to be special doesn't.