I agree that when its a strange dog, best not to be too friendly with it, let it smell the back of your hand and if it bites, best to get the hand than something else. But if the dog is known to be vicious to strangers as yours apparently is, and you take it to where its likely to encounter strangers, and in large numbers to boot, looking for trouble if you ask me.
I've raised dogs my entire life, large breeds that have been some of the best dipositioned, most obedient dogs I've ever seen. When I lived in Illinois, in a relatively small town at the time, there was a kid that wanted to present himself as a tough, but in reality, if ever confronted with an actual tough, he'd have cried for mercy after soiling his shorts. But in a small town with access to MTV videos, he wanted to play or emulate the toughs in the videos and be a wanna be. So one day I'm walking one of my dogs around town after work as I did every day, no days off, and the kid is coming towards me on the other side of the street, walking his pitbull with an over sized piece of log chain around its neck with a series 500 lock dangling from it. None of it did nothing other than give the appearance of tough for the world to see. As he nears me, he crosses the street a few houses in front of me so that the dogs would confront each other. When he got about a house from me, within my earshot, I said to him "If your dog touches mine, you will get to watch me kill it just before I kill you for doing it". I wasn't joking. I would have done both right there in front of witnesses in a town where most of the people knew and liked me. He crossed back to the other side of the street before he got to me. I saw the kid do the same to some young lady walking her two boxers, forcing her and them into the street, laughing after he passed them as though he accomplished something, which if had been in an MTV video, might have been something. So one night, I'm walking one of my dogs again, happen into the front of that kids and his wifes house, its dark, and then his dog comes charging my dog and myself out of pure darkness, but we made it off of the sidewalk into the street in time, and it got choked at the end of its chain that was tethered to a line that went between two trees in his front yard, and its length made it to the street, beyond the public sidewalk, but only to the street. I saw his wife looking out the front door to witness it, so I yelled to her, "One time that dog bites someone, you and your husband will be making mortgage payments on that home that somebody else will own and occupy". They took the hint and stopped tethering their dog like that. But, their dog got loose once too often later down the road, one of the towns officers sent it on to the next world with his service revolver. Problem solved.
I love dogs. But if I knew that my dog had problems with other people or animals and took it around other people or animals anyway and then went around telling people about it as though they were the dummies, wouldn't say much about my common sense, or lack there of. Life is too short. My two cents worth.
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