gemsworld wrote:
"It's really not about the breed it's about the owner!"
I would be rich if I got a nickel every time I heard someone, usually a Pitbull or Rottweiler owner, say this.
My experience has been different. More than once my dog has been approached/attacked by some aggressive yapping ankle biter.
Some owner that has very little control over their dog.
Or then there are those who try to contain there 4 yappers in a portable plastic pen, that collapses and lets all the dogs escape and come chasing after my dog as we walk the CG on a leash. Again it's about the owner.
Those of us with larger dogs tend to make more effort to see to it that our dogs are secure vs. the little yappers who are kept in makeshift pens or on 25' leashes.
My dog has never been approached aggressively by a loose large dog or a dog from the restricted lists.
But we have been approach more times than I can count by small and medium sized dogs that the owners cannot control.