If that's the case my DDB must have came straight out of the Rome Coliseum.
I know its not just me as I used to have discussions with other owners that had the same issue's, well not really issues, just the way they are. Again, as someone just stated, it has nothing to do with disobedience. It is an obvious genetic thing within the breed, I know that because I get it with the CC (not as brutal) also and with a GSD or Dobie I never got it. Has it been bred out, I don't know.
I've owned around 60 ddb , de laube rouge , pepignon , von holm , de l'etang de mirloup , alcarinque , bodscav , el siscar , tnt , de legeane dogs directly off their yard or their dogs , dogues a couple generations off des arbres , demons noirs , st. Hubert ....if the temperament comes any different than I seen , I would wonder wwhere it came from ??? I've had 2 of my family of ddb put down for aggression , I call bullshit on the owners , I wish I would have had the opportunity to have them back , another spent his life on a chain due to aggression , I assure you every one of those was environmental ......... ddb were fought till around 1906 , so a lot of the drives are not completely gone ...... I assure you the temperament today is very different from the late 1980, early 1990 dogues ..... and those dogs were submissive , the temperament was accurately described as "surly" ....... the difference between them and gsd or dobe's is the depth and balance of drives .........
Why are DDB no good at IPO?
because their learning curve is too flat , and their drives are not of the correct type ....... and if you think they can't do it , your wrong , any dog can ......
Do all DDB mark new items that come into the house?
just male dogs do , it's one of the reason I don't like keeping males of any breed ...... tomcats are terrible for that practice .....
That was an issue I had, possibly in the dominant category. Someone came in and I put their jacket on a chair instead of hang it in the closet, he would take a leak on it. Someone would stop to talk with me, he would pee on them, not always but a few times, just as he peed on a Rottie that he met through a fence. Which by the way, my DDB could not be near any other male dogs at all at the K-9 training center and no he was not aggressive, he just wouldn't allow another dog to posture on him or accept any aggression towards him at all. He never even barked at any dogs.
they're dog aggressive , they were bred to fight , their drives are closer to correct for that ......... in the woods my dogs will pee on my pee , they are a hundred miles away from wanting to dominate me , not even in dreams they have would they imagine it .
I bring a new box home and he would pee on it. Some would say that this was simply an intact issue of marking, could be and again this is just a very small fraction of the wide array of dominant things he would do every single day. Whether folks want to believe it or not, these guardian dogs plot all the time. I recently read in another thread Black Shadow CC make a statement saying "these dogs have been bred to think for themselves" or something similar to this and I think that sums up the plotting thing. If they have to think for themselves it actually makes sense of the whole thing.
they've been bred to think for themselves , because they have been bred for a thoughtless task ...... labs , goldens , gsd , rotts , dobe's , those are breeds that have been bred to think , to learn ...... fighting is an instinct , no thought , territorial , mistrust of strangers , defensiveness , none of that is taught .........