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Lol Queeri,

One of my boys is a hunter, my other one is not, both are well trained, both are never left alone with grandchildren, both are extremely active very well exercised mentally and physically(3 hours a day of off lead exercise and some mental games also). My dogs are not trained to kill Paul, I have never, not once set my dog on any animal, it is natural for certain breeds. They are also treated as dogs and not mini people(which many dog owners do now), I understand why but at the forefront of my mind is that they are dogs, very well balanced dogs at that.

There are always going to be bad dogs and bad owners, I try and ensure that my boys get plenty of socialising with other dogs, my 40kg goldendore loves every dog, is completely confident in everything that he does and has been attacked a couple of times by other dogs, he's never ever turned on them, a gentle giant. My other one is well socialised but if a dog were too attack him, it wouldn't end well, he warns a few times then if the other dog doesn't take note and continues it's a bite, a controlled bite to stop the other dog doing what he's doing(that's how dogs are Paul, how they teach each other and learn, we can try to humanise them but they are dogs. I would trust either of my dogs around any dog that was normal, they have probably 50to100 interactions a day with other dogs.

Now let's talk about many owners, not all and I think from many people I've met there are many that take their dogs well being physically and mentally as paramount and they do what is required to have rounded obedient submissive dogs. There are certain breeds that personally I would never have around children a mallinois is one of those breeds. The amount of exercise and mental stimulation that they need is huge, if you have young children, then you don't have time enough for those animals, again, it's obvious and sadly the bullshit pandemic scam made the whole situation worse.

I try to be a responsible owner Queeri but at the same time, I like my dogs to be dogs and I will continue to do that.

Here's an example of something that happened the other day.

I was walking my big dog down to one of his favourite walk's, a morning at the river , swimming. He was on a lead because we were on the pavement by a road , as I got down to the fields, we met 2 young women with coffee in hand and a specialist fighting breed dog(can't remember the breed) , they stopped at the beginning of a 100yd straight area where it's tight to pass,as I approached I said "is yours ok?", yes, we just stopped because yours was on a lead, this dog was very fit and I asked if that was a tracker on his neck to be told, no it's a shock collar, then they went into sat it was a rescue and didn't like men because men had treated it badly, these were your typical clueless type owners, so this 60kg dog with no means of control other than a shock collar and 2 strip of piss women to hold it if it decided to attack anyone or anything , no lead to walk it on. Anyways, we had a conversation and I was knelt down at dog level about a foot from her dog who was completely fine with me wagging its tail and wanting me to pet it, I did give it some attention, I suggested that she let go of it and said if anything happens I won't hold you responsible, she wouldn't let this dog be a dog, I petted it's head a couple of times and left it on a good note, I did tell her I thought it was a little stupid to not have a lead and also asked why you would use an ecollar on a dog that has had issues in the past, both things were left to hang as they didn't want to have a discussion about any of it. Poor dog is all I can say, they are teaching that animal to be afraid if other dogs and men , they think they're doing the right thing however but like I say, you can't teach stupid. I am no expert with dogs but have been around dogs since I was a child and am very aware of their behaviours, emotions and body language.

I try not to create issues in my head that don't exist Paul, I would be far more concerned about people than dogs, but I think I've made that point enough.
Here's to another 20 years of being irresponsible. Oh, ask me how many incidents I have had with dogs biting children or grandchildren Paul, I will tell you, zero, because my dogs are never alone with either and also they are socialised with children.

Dogs are natural predators. All of them. Humans do not need to train them to "kill things". They already know.

My dogs "kill things". Mostly rodents, with an occasional bird. They would happily kill any of the cats or chickens if they ever caught one. Would they kill a baby? Maybe, maybe not. I'm certainly not going to try to find out. The trick with dogs, you see, isn't so much training them to not "kill things", but to prevent them from having opportunities to kill certain, rather important, things. For example: babies.