Don't bother replying, Renee. I posted a response and it got denied and I was even nice about it! Didn't let me inner fila out at all.... well, a little, but not very much.
I don't necessarily agree with him, but how DO you justify breeding for that kind of drive in a modern environment?
ETA - I have nothing against guardian breeds, but everyone elsewhere is so quit to point out that ojeriza is NOT guardiness- it's aggression towards ANY stranger, ALWAYS. It's not the directed, controlled aggression of a working GSD or malinois patrol dog- it's the default setting. How the heck is that safe?
How do you justify the breeder of GSD's whose hips are bad they nearly touch the ground? How do you justify the breeding of animals that have trouble breething?
Ojeriza does NOT equal aggression. My dog is NOT aggressive. I would not tolerate aggression in my home and have put down a dog for aggression. Ojeriza is distrust of strangers. Aggression in my opinion is attacking, vicious, behavior.
Filas are expected to know the difference between what a real threat is and is not. If a fila owner says their dog is aggressive, then I do not believe that they have a fila with true temperament.
I always use the example of last May... there were four strangers walking around Bella's house while she roamed free. An aggressive dog would not allow that. A dog that is well socialized and trained respectively would. Filas were bred to HOLD... that is where Fila comes from.. the word filar, which means to hold.
That nincompoop on that blog does not know what he is talking about and I said the same thing on his blog... if you have not spoken with people who have filas and have never been around them, then no one is in a worthy enough place to pass ANY judgment on why the dogs are bred and why people have them.