What do you think of Cesar's pit bull Daddy? He seems calm, relaxed and balanced at first sight or is he more suppressed and fearful of doing anything? I'm still learning about dog body language but there seems to be something not right with that dog, if you look beyond the relaxed image at first.
Pyxel, here's why Daddy looks like a very stressed and anxious dog to me in that pic.
I see a dog with ears laid back, head lowered, eyes wide and brows gathered. The position of his mouth even looks as though his breathing is perhaps stressed, on the verge of a nervous pant. This is a dog who is, I understand, brought out on the set of Ceasar's show with some regularity and is used as an example, so just being around a crowd of people shouldn't be that stressful.
By contrast, the reactions I see from my Kharma - a Fila, a breed that is NOT a social creature and does NOT, by nature, have
any desire to be surrounded by strangers and is noted for their aversion to strangers - are ears relaxed or forward, face calm and relaxed, head up, paying attention to everything and scanning without anxiety, worry or fear.