Our dog is normally a sweet little dude but has a resource guarding problem we haven't managed to train out of him. He'll snap and/or nip at me if I try to get him to drop something he picked up on a walk, if I walk too close to a meal he doesn't want but also doesn't want me to have, if I hand my mom something when they're on the couch together (she is apparently a resource)
But he's a dinky little toy mix and weighs 25 pounds max, so the worst it ever gets is a little nick on my toe. Scale that up to a dog twice that weight at minimum and a big bite and what would be annoying in my case is life threatening in hers.
Yeah they probably wouldn't go for the kill on purpose, but again, when it's a 50-150lbs dog with a wide jaw and a lot of force behind it, what might've been a wash and neosporin situation with a smaller dog could be lethal.
Our dog is normally a sweet little dude but has a resource guarding problem we haven't managed to train out of him. He'll snap and/or nip at me if I try to get him to drop something he picked up on a walk, if I walk too close to a meal he doesn't want but also doesn't want me to have, if I hand my mom something when they're on the couch together (she is apparently a resource)
But he's a dinky little toy mix and weighs 25 pounds max, so the worst it ever gets is a little nick on my toe. Scale that up to a dog twice that weight at minimum and a big bite and what would be annoying in my case is life threatening in hers.
Yeah, that common with dogs, but they wouldn't kill you over it. Like warning bites are a thing.
Yeah they probably wouldn't go for the kill on purpose, but again, when it's a 50-150lbs dog with a wide jaw and a lot of force behind it, what might've been a wash and neosporin situation with a smaller dog could be lethal.