Comment to Nature VS Nurture
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this is what truly fascinates me about breeding. I would love to see this development from a dog at the earliest age. I have had two dogs under slightly different scenarios. One I got when he was 5-6 months of age, he wasn't really socialized was very dominant. He wanted to kill anything that walked, the dog never redirected on me, my wife, cat or chihuahua. He was neutered and all of the HSUS protocol. THe dog got worse and worse with his agression and became a liability because he wanted to go after people and strange dogs. This dog was socialized as soon as I got it but was kicked out of day care around 7-8 months of age and simply could not be trusted around other dogs, he also redirected a lot at the vets office. We had to put him down because it was a matter of time before he hurt a person or killed someone's pet. MY Bernie was obtained at 8 weeks of age, heavily socialized has all the tools to be a complete dominant Bully size, structure but I have yet to see a hard challenge against me, wife or pets. This dog on paper should have more prey drive and animal agression but lacks it. It puzzles me to this day how he is the most submissive dog ever tippy toes around the cats laying down to not hurt any of them. I wonder what I can do to a different breed with my method of raising a dog.