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As a part time dog trainer and a human interaction specialist, it's always interesting to observe just who the people are that have dogs that get attacked by other dogs, and also, the owners of the dogs doing the attacking, which, is supposedly the reason that pit bulls get banned in countries or have muzzle laws.
It's not the dogs see.
It's the owners of the dogs.
If no owners are around, dogs just play together after they go about getting to know each other.
Once there is a human there to project his/her fear and tension onto the dogs in question, along with, perhaps, the very special owners that actually train their dogs to be nasty, well, that's where you get specific breeds that seem to become a problem.
Small in courage? Just get a big muscular dog that makes you feel safe.
Teach it to bight tires in the park.
Oh, that last one is a true story. One guy I knew actually used to wonder why his dog was labeled "psychotic" and a danger after he took it repeatedly to public places and had it bight tire swings and be aggressiveness round other dogs.
Back when I was a kid, the "bad" dogs where King dobermans.
And, what a surprise, they just happened to be the taste of the day as a popular dog breed.
Currently it's pit bull style dogs.
The majority of which, without any negative human behavior to influence them, are completely docile and loving animals that would rather lick you than bite you.
E-GO 2018
