Thank you again Mr. Koerner and to everyone else for their opinion and advice. The fact is everything you say about my reasoning may be true and everything I believe in may be true as well. There is no way of knowing who is right and wrong in their beliefs because what is right for some is wrong for others. I just felt it was important to defend insecure dogs and my belief is that they should not be euthanized as some people have suggested in the forum. It is true, insecure dogs are a great responsibility to raise, but raising one is also a very enlightening experience as I have talked about in my previous post. Because they are probably the most difficult to raise then in doing so the owner will learn a level of animal psychology intuition like no other. If there was a way to breed this dog and not have insecure dogs as a result I would, but if the outcome of the breeding will be more insecure dogs then I won’t. As I explained from my previous post, If I could give my insecure dog that I lived with for seven years more confidence I would, and the last thing I would do is produce another insecure dog. Not for the sake of society, but for the well being of the dogs. Whether the dog proceeds to attack with the intensity of a “man killer” or as a “fear biter” is a different story determined by genetics.

However regardless of the intensity of the attack, my belief is that either way the catalyst of the attack was the same, a misunderstanding between two species (in this case human and dog) be it due to insecurity or lack of intelligence or socialization by either one of the species. In my opinion dogs don’t have malice in their brains when they attack like humans tend to do, they only react on instinct. I don’t believe in getting rid of something because it poses a threat. I am not God. If there is something I learned from this young dog is that under certain situations especially when he is happy he knows no fear. Therefore, I must learn from him and face this situation with no fear and much responsibility as well. But I can’t be fearful and run from the situation.

I would greatly appreciate it if you would answer my question on the incidents of when he redirects that I wrote about in the previous post. I want to know if this is acceptable behavior?

Thank you to everyone and I greatly appreciate and respect everyones advice. And just because I may not listen to everyone’s opinion does not mean I should stop asking questions. I feel I should learn as much as I can from other people’s opinion. A greater injustice would be to ask no questions at all for fear of being shunned.