Once again I concur with your astute asessment. :lol: Let me take another angle here... you mentioned the dobe in a previous comment. This was actually the particular breed I had in mind when I first answered... It has been an opinion of mine for some time...back when I had a guard dog route of about 30 dogs ... (mostly Rott's, GSD, a few Dobe's, a couple Great Dane's, an Akita) all hard dogs who were rescued for being to aggresive usually. it was my opinion that if I had to take a bite from one of these dogs...it would have been the Dobe. In other words, I thought I could beat the Dobe if I had to. That being said I think he would have made a great sport dog...but has a PP dog he was barely adequet...