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All of this still sounds to me like even the dog parents were also not socialized properly, perhaps on purpose since some people like their dogs "aggressive" with strangers (irresponsible as it is, especially if you're going to breed them, and not just have them for the purpose of guarding your property, BUT there are people out there like that), and the dogs would have turned out differently IF they've had different upbringing. However, I will agree with you, that most definitely the CC in question is poorly bred, came from a "breeder" who bred "HUGE" CC's, and considering he was given away for free, which is F'n ridiculous. Also the OP admitted that once seeing the dog parent "I was definitely terrorized, but at the same time, I was thinking I would love to have one of those protecting my baby." Sounds like mom chose to get a dog from the same litter in spite of knowing that they come from "aggressive" parents. And that is why, I am having a hard time blaming the genetics, IMO aggression is a multi-dimensional concept. I'm not going to get into the whole 'nurture vs nature' debate on here in trying to justify my point, I don't have time for that. HOWEVER, reading the original post I noticed many red flags, and one of them was " Well, I didn't know what the hell an italian mastiff was but I wasn't going to argue with the words MASTIFF and FREE. lol." One of my pet peeves is clueless people getting any of the working class dogs, not just CC's, and then getting rid of them because they can not handle them, and I see this type of thing happening more and more... Rant over.
