Thanks for everyone's input and jack, that was a nice read!
That's the stuff you want to hear and encourages big time to be patient with your dogs

when other aggressive dogs would come at her, Ruby would "hide" behind Tony's legs, or "submit" by lowering herself to the ground.
So you're saying all of her negative experiences with aggressive and dominant dogs didn't seem to touch her self confidence in the ring because she was smart and well socialized enough to knew the difference between those situations

Ruby was smart enough to be able to read the other bitch's intentions from across the pit, and where she would hunker-down and "submit" to other dogs in harmless "bluff" street encounters, when she saw the totally-intense, deadly-serious expression of another pit dog staring at her from the corner, Ruby met fire with MORE fire
Would she also finish a cur / make a deep game scratch when the other dog was wasted or stopped? I mean did her mentality change allot when she got more experienced?


Cheers