Fat Bill said his very favorite,
Bolero, would run loose in the yard and ignore all the other dogs ... played with pups ... but you put her in the [] and she'd shipwreck what was in front of her ...
I have never had a dog that "would hit anything" that I thought was my best dog.
My best dogs always knew WHAT to hit, and what
not to hit :idea:
Silverback's mama
Missy was among the funniest examples of this: as you carried her to the pit, her tail would be wagging, but as soon as you step over the wall, she'd be, "Aggggggg!", growling ... step back out, she'd wag her tail like a puppy ... step back in, "Aggggggg!", growling ... she knew what the pit was :lol:
Missy was the hardest scratcher (of an assload of hard scratchers) I've ever had and was devastating.
Even funnier, I put her in the pit with (the much larger)
Wild Red Rose for Rosey's first time. Rosie was a big, thick, slow, ponderous (but extremely powerful) animal.
When faced with Rosey, Missy flew over there, chest-bumped Rosey, and immediately assessed that Rosey was a big puppy, and then just ignored Rosey.
That was the first time that ever happened. I had always put Missy in there with fully-started bitches, and Missy would just annihilate them ... but that day I discovered that Missy wouldn't bite something that already didn't want to bite her. The two started playing.
So I put
Coca Cola in there with Rosey, just to get her started, as Coki
was a puppy-killer, and would kill anything with hair that was moving, or try to, that wasn't her own pup sucking her tit.
Coki grabbed Rosey's front leg and went to shaking, and Rosey lowered her front end and started
playing with Coki ... she was so strong, pain-tolerant, thick, and durable that what Coki was doing to her was flyshit, and she thought Coki was just trying to play, so she was bouncing around and "playing back" :lol:
When Rosey finally did start, later in life, she was a ponderous, but devastating animal (like George Foreman). Rosey was big, but only a 46, but she nonetheless wrecked and stopped the 6-lb bigger bitch who had
Southern Kennels' Kitana picked up over at Leon's ... breaking that bitch's leg up at the elbow ...
Sure glad Rosey didn't even bother to do anything to the tiny Coca Cola, whom she didn't even assess to be a threat :lol:
Jack