Comment to 'Lee, David and other Bandog breeders on this board !!'
  • [QUOTE]I am just wondering why experienced K9 officers (in case they were) would favor anything but proven police K9s.[/QUOTE] I actually think anyone would be wise to choose a bandog over a police k9 as a home and family guardian. One thing for sure is bandogs are much more low key, laid back and un-demanding pets, ie better pets, compared to highly strung hyperactive working police dogs. Much much better suited to a family household. People who professionally work with police k9s might understand this better than anyone. For me the thing with bandogs and PP is you just have to check that they're willing to engage a human, keep them fit, and then trust their evolutionary adaptations for big game subjugation are still in tact for if a real situation goes down. To me that's bandogs as pp dogs in a nutshell, so whether you're testing them here or there or in whose backyard is really unimportant. It's not a real serious test of their combative ability, their combative ability is there (if it is) thanks to their heritage as big-game subjugation dogs, varying degrees of that combative capacity can be retained depending on breeding practices.