Our youngest isn't happy unless he's sat right on top of Helen and he's a total wuss running away from fights at the dog park.
Dobies get a bad rep sometimes because bad owners largely.
All of ours have the soft ears and the boy even has a tail, so they don't look quite as aggressive.
He'll go up to anybody at the park and let them stroke him and on more than one occasion people have said to me, 'what is he he looks a bit like a doberman' 'He is a doberman' I respond at which point they jump back.
I think you shouldn't be allowed to have a dog without doing an hours online course in dog psychology, but don't get me ranking about that
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