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I can personally attest to the fact that for the most part, almost any breed of dog can be "trained" to attack humans/wild game/anything.

Back home in the 50's in rural Georgia, I knew the dog trainer that raised, trained and sold tracking bloodhounds. He had two types of dogs... some that were used to locate lost children, missing persons, etc. and the other to track down and capture escaped convicts and other "bad" types.

One day I went to his house, and while waiting for him to come out (we were going rabbit hunting), I went to the dog pen and was playing with a couple of the bloodhounds - those sad-eyed, floppy-eared basically laid-back, lovable hounds - and they were drooling with joy at being scratched and loved on.

When the guy came out and saw what I was doing, he went beserk. I never saw him so angry. He accused me of ruing months of training because I had shown these dogs AFFECTION. He began beating and kicking the dogs and screaming at them. Then he wanted me to do the same. I refused. (I didn't go rabbit hunting with him either).

So yes, even a laid-back ol' bloodhound can be MADE to hate humans - and they were feared by the convicts because they knew that even the handlers wouldn't call the dogs off right away when they were caught. "Let `em get a little taaste of blood" kind of thing.

Dogs have been a part of my life since I was very young, and those who teach them this way to make them killers, deserve to be eaten by their students.

Brew (Phil Whitley)

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