As there are more bites from German Shepherds than any other breed and nobody wants to ban them*, I'm sure BSL statutes here will have similar results.
*I kinda wonder what's up with that. I think it's because German Shepherds are fluffy. I mean, it might be because they're more popular, but really, I think people just don't want to ban fluffy creatures.
I totally agree...violentnickJune 25 2008, 12:28:42 UTC
It probably is largely due to the amont of shepherd type dogs that're out there. But it doesn't change the fact that they're known biters... Not always angrily, but biters none the less. It's something you need to train out of them. Rocco & I met this very young & obviously inexperienced couple at petsmart, with some exotic breed of German Shepherd (what're there like 12 now?). It was a puppy, younger but larger than Rocco was. It was a real instigator though. Rocco never saw it as anything more than play, but another type of dog might've yelped & ran away. Add to the equation that the li'l metal head dude had named his dog 'Aries' & I just KNEW this thing'd grow up to be trouble. Fast forward a few months later. We meet them again at the dog park & everyone's pretty much full sized. Aries is a lot bigger than Rocco & totally aggressive. Rocco's usually the submissive dog at the park, but when it's play time, he doesn't get dominated. Period. He's too fast, athletc & strong. Smart too, a total escape artist. Aries didn't like that &
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*I kinda wonder what's up with that. I think it's because German Shepherds are fluffy. I mean, it might be because they're more popular, but really, I think people just don't want to ban fluffy creatures.
Our dogs are cuter anyway.
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