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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the person who says she had to have a purebred to train to guard her.  Sorry, that's utterly ridiculous.  Any dog can be trained to guard.  Hell, you don't even have to train them.[/quote]

No.  Neither of my goldens could ever have been trained to be a guard dog.  In fact, the current one definitely considers me his guard human.  Any sign of trouble, he is definitely taking off and letting me fend for myself.  I had to break into our house once in the middle of the night (forgot my keys) and I stepped over his slumbering body.

Also, I have periodically looked at shelter dogs and every time I see a nice one, it is gone within a day or two.  I definitely want more than a day to think about such an important decision!  I don’t believe there are healthy, family-friendly non-geriatric dogs being put down around here.  My siblings that live in other areas of the country have had somewhat more luck with adopting unwanted dogs.  
I also take issue with the notion that buying a purebred means one less dog adopted from shelters.  If the choice is a reactive dog or pit mix or no dog at all, I definitely pick no dog.  There’s just no way I would adopt any put mix or a reactive dogs.  Maybe that doesn’t make me the best person, but the truly had people are the ones that created these unwanted dogs.[/quote]

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