Comment to 'Lee, David and other Bandog breeders on this board !!'
  • Good post. [QUOTE]Like i said,I'm a city guy Tonedog/Gun,so I'll admit that I don't know from experience,so my question is: If you have a dog that his dispatched some of the toughest boars,coyotes and wolves there is,but has never seen or faced an aggressive human(or even a passive human holding a knife)....does that automatically translate into a dog that will protect you and loved ones from a bad guy?[/QUOTE] No it definitely doesn't. I'd say most hunting dogs aren't protective and are even actively bred to not be protective on purpose. Which is why I said testing that a dog is willing to treat an aggressing bad guy like he's a boar is a good idea if you want a protection dog, but if you tick that box (and it only should take one 60 second little check really), and then the dog also has a career as a boar - lugging dog. Then you can be sure you've got a dog that a) will protect, and b) can handle itself combatively and take punishment and pressure and stress and etc. The latter will have been tested by the boars. But yeah it's possible to have a dog perfectly capable of protecting you, but lacking the understanding that it's allowed to or the nerve to dare engage a human. Most boardogs would fit this bill honestly, so a pp dog is a special dog for sure (realistically rarer and harder to find than a good boar dog), but it's not really tested unless it does something else IMO.