[Skybird]

Dogs' characters within a given race vary individually. However, inherent tendencies for more calmness or aggressiveness, curiosity of stupditity also vary over races. That's why I have a problem with a generalisation like "its always the owner". The owner always has an influence in the general setting the dog lives in, yes, but still the dog'S individual as well as race-specific temper alike also fall into the formula. And like humans as well, you sometimes can have a black sheep in a dogs' breed as well.

If that black sheep by its breed characteristics than is designed to fight and has the body, the teeth, the muscles and in conflict: the aggressiveness to do that, then you have a problem. A pitbull - is no poodle. A Greyhound is great at running, but not in fighting, like a dog bred for fighting in the fighting pit.

Saying this as somebody who loves dogs and wolves (and cats and horses and animals), and was raised in a household where parents had dogs, and grandfather had a gang of hunting dogs.

So again: the owner always is part of the forumla, yes. But it is not as if the dog's race does mean nothing. Also, due to the intense breeding, certain dog races are known to be more vulnerable to typoical physical diseases and crippling deformations than others - and some races are known to be more vulnerable to neuroticism and aggressiveness than others.

Certain races were bred for man taking pleasure from seeing dogs killing each other in a pit fight. Such acts of abusing our superior status in creation, are a shame for us.