Back in the day, [size=8]where most folks tend to spend their time instead of what is our reality today,[/size] people valued and respected dogs that would go for the bear at all, really loved the dogs that just went for it and hung on, and REALLY got off on dogs that would end a bear. Not because the bear is that big of an obstacle, but because dogs that would get over their instinctive mental block and fight the sucker as if it was a bigger dog or a pig were pretty effin' rare. It is the modern descendants of those people that go nuts with the romance crap and paint every grasshopper ancient dogs caught as being the size of a rhino with a crushing power of a divorce lawyer. It's silly.