WRONG!
UNFORTUNATELY MISINFORMATION GOES A LONG WAY.
Most dogs have been selected and bred over time for some form of purpose.
Shepherd’s as the name suggests for their herding and healing behaviours.
Terriers for their tenacity with pray.
Retriever’s for their malleable nature in training to go fetch - and bring pray back to drop at our feet.
Recently the Cockapoo and Cavopoo, Labradoodle have been bred to have hypoallergenic coats as well as being really easy to train for your family dog.
There’s a common denominator in all this…………us humans.
Bull breeds have of course been selectively bred for certain roles because we humans have required certain behaviours to meet our own needs.
Dog’s are SENTIENT BEINGS.
They are animals driven by survival instincts, and live moment to moment in driven states.
MAIN DRIVES -
Fight
Flight
Play
Prey
Sex
Pack
All responses are triggered by the shaping of behaviours and natural reflex instincts.
We train and condition dogs in two main scientific ways and methods.
Operant
Classical
Fortunately there are many bull breeds living in homes and cared for by extremely responsible humans.
They will tell you how gentle and trainable these magnificent dogs are.
And how much value they add to their families.
All dogs have drive.
Depending on breed traits characteristics, the drives will vary on a wide ranging scope.
This will have a bearing and impact on how we communicate by fair means, and how we condition behaviours.
Unfortunately when any dog falls into the wrong hands there will be negative consequences all round.
The bigger or stronger the dog the worse the potential for harm to others can be.
So maybe we should look at the human elements of ownership in the first place, rather than the dogs behaviours.
It’s a simple equation -
•Care + conditioned + fair leadership + consistency =
ALLOWING A DOG TO BE A DOG.
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