Good luck with the pup. Hopefully she turns out to meet your expectations.

I have been in and around these dogs for a really long time and I have had only one that would bite a person and have never seen one that would actually defend a person. Every dog I have ever owned or been a part of, would load up and leave with anyone willing to pet him/her on the head.

I have heard stories of their protecting but never actually seen it. I had some man-dogs some years back (Fila Brasileiro, weak nerved, defensively driven man-dogs, as well as one SCH trained Rottweiler) and in those years learned dog that will actually engage and protect are very few and very far in between.

Granted, a display (which is what most dogs do) is 99.9% of all the protection a person needs. If you have a dog that barks at strangers and can be seen by strangers, is just about all the home security anyone would ever need.

A number of years ago a friend of mine had a yard dog in his fenced in property. He was a regular old run of the mill bulldog that hung on the fence in attempt to kill man, woman or child. Everyone that ever encountered the dog knew he would bite except for the crackhead who had a plan. His shop was broken into and a set of really expensive cylinder heads, a tunnel ram intake, a carburetor, headers, pistons, rods (the point is it took several trips to get all that out). The plan? There were six empty bologna packs at the edge of the fence. One guy hauled him off while another fed the dog bologna to off-set the 'killer' in him.

And to answer your questions, nothing in these dogs has to do with winning other than the pursuit if winning. Can a non-winning dog produce winning dogs? Absolutely. It happens everyday. Can it happen consistently over time? History says no.

EWO II