[shillelagh]

Next door has a rottweiller and they got it in March/April this year. He's a lovely dog .. he also was trained as a guard dog in a pub, he belonged to some people who lived in a pub and he was trained as their guard dog, they moved to spain and gave him to someone else who was then living in a pub but only temporary and we all got to know him he used to come into the pub and wander round and lie at your feet when we were playing pool, he was a big softie with a big bark but if the pub shut he knew then what his job was. As they were only in the pub temporary and they knew that they would have to find a home for him and one of my neighbours took him. They have a grandchild and he is not in the house when he comes to visit. Which is not often as he doesnt live round here and when they do come to visit they stop at his dads sisters - because of the dog before that he stopped here.

I think ive said this before about ours a black labrador - my niece when she was a kid and im going back to when she was about 3 or 4 could do anything with him .. even trap him under the chair lift the seat up and when he poked his head thro drop the seat down on his head .. he would have done anything for her. Any kid who tried to come in the garden when she was in it he wouldnt let anyone in mum used to have to shut him in the house. He bit once and that was when my now ex brother in law when he was drunk teased him so much he bit him as if to say now get lost and leave me alone. We still kept him and didnt have him put down till many years later.

I agree you dont leave kids with dogs and more often than not that it is the dog owners fault that the dog isnt well trained, and that dogs can turn we saw it with ours.