Re: Fwd: [PyrNet-L] Re: Chat:Behavior, pyr that bit

["Donna Coffman" <dcoffman@erols.com>]

Could this dog ever again be trusted not to react the same way in a similar
situation?   Who would be willing to take that chance?  

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> From: Charlotte & Jack Perry <pyreau@erols.com>
> To: pyrnet-l@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [PyrNet-L] Re: Chat:Behavior, pyr that bit
> Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 6:28 PM
> 
> Colette & Warrick Wilson wrote:
> > 
> > I've listened to this thread with interest.  I'm extremely puzzled by
the effort put into justifying
> > what this dog did.
> 
> I'm going to have to agree with Colette, Joe, Mitzi and others. A biting
> Pyr is not ok and I think we do the breed a disservice by trying to
> justify the behavior. We once had to put a dog to sleep that bit a
> child.  Although the bite did not even break the skin we did not feel
> that we could safely keep a dog that had bitten at a time when our
> children were young and there were strange children in and out of our
> house all the time.  She simply was not trustworthy. 
> 
> My feeling is that a truly stable guardian dog should be able to tell
> the difference between children and a real threat. I'm sure many of you
> have heard the story of our first Pyr - a dog that my husband kept
> saying "would never be a gaurd dog".  That dog loved everyone. One day
> in the middle of the day the doorbell rang.  When I went to the door the
> man outside thrust open the door and pushed me up against the wall.  The
> next thing I knew, my sweet dog who was asleep under the dining room
> table leapt at the man, hit him in the shoulders with his front paws and
> appeared to be in the process of attacking the man in the neck. I didn't
> have time to be frightened, I was simply apalled at my dog's ferocious
> behavior, growling, snarling etc.  The next thing I knew the man was
> running down the street and my dog went back under the table and went to
> sleep.  He never actually bit that man.  It was only later that I began
> to realize that the man was obviously up to no good. Anyway, to make a
> long story short, this is the type of temperament I want my dogs to
> have.  I want them to have the intelligence to do only what they need to
> do to guard their loved ones.
> 
> My 4 cents worth.
> Charlotte
> 
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