I used to be of the mind that nobody should pet your dog. But I've since seen too many very very nice hard hitting intense dogs who will bite the F outta the decoy in defense, totally wanna slaughter the poor decoy (on occasion that's been me LOL), then wanna love on the guy he/she's just been biting seconds later. So if a dog with such intensity can also be social, then why not? I used to feel that sociability would take away from biting intensity, but I have since learnt that if the training is right then it doesn't make a difference. Now -- one thing I would doubt with some social dogs is that if someone is petting the dog n loving on em, n then the dog is told to attack them, I have doubts that the dog really would suddenly turn on the guy who's being so nice to them.... but what are the chances you let someone pet your dog then suddenly need to be bitten? Very low I would imagine.
It's been said by some people that they like dogs who want to litterally \"eat\" people... good for them, but if they consider it a PPD and it's so unstable that you can't walk thru a crowd for an hour and the dog wants to bite everyone that looks at the dog funny, then maybe that dog isn't the kinda PPD that many people would like.... i.e. a dog that can protect you no matter where you take them, regardless of who's there, what they're doing and how they look at your dog. If you want a dog who'll defend your property no matter what and doesn't ever have to be in a crowded public area then no problem, get the dog that eats people :lol:
I have no idea what my lil girl is gonna be like, but I believe that a dog genetically has a \"line\"... and the way you raise and socialize the dog will help go to the left or right of that line -- but that line is the dogs pre-programming, if they're all the way on the aggressive side, then the \"less aggressive\" side of that line still falls into the aggressive zone... make sense?