| Total lack of knowledge is a major problem. Do you know how many people give me a funny look when I tell them Sasha is a house dog? People buy a dog, throw it in the backyard, feed it and thats it. And when it barks at anything and everything, the feel safe because their dog is protecting them. Little do they know that if their dog was every put in a very stressful situation where it had to decide to protect you or save its own a$$, what would happen? The dog would run away with its tail tucked between it legs, or its nub I should say. People ask me all the time, "is she protective?" and I tell them that she will alert me if she hears a strange noise etc., but thats it. Then the ask "why won't she protect you?" Then I have to explain to them that she is not trained to do that and very few dogs are even cabable of such training. Rotties are loosing popularity for the wrong reasons, but I am glad to see their popularity declining |