Nope, Grammy. Fila people are way different, lol. When they get in groups it brings out all the crazies.
Plus, we can't agree on a standard, and I hope we never do. It keeps the AKC out of the picture. Filas are a stand alone breed. We'll unite to protect our dogs, but we aren't the kind to group in clubs. When that starts happening, you can look for it to be the death knell for our breed.
Bunny . . . training . . . well, it's more of an alliance than training really. There's give and take. And Filas need a reason. They are rational, thinking, deliberating creatures. They understand cause and effect - well enough to instigate a sequence of cause and effect events on their own.
When they are pups, it's like dealing with a very precocious, very intelligent, very clever child, but that phase passes quickly into adolescence - which can be trying, lol! Expect things like a total disregard for previously good recall. As maturity sets in, so does reason.
Your Fila will likely have a strange and warped sense of humor also. Be prepared
But once your Fila is seven or eight months old, you will have very little to worry about as far as human aggression. Kharma disarmed a very large man she thought was threatening when he pulled a 3 foot steel bar out of his truck and started walking toward us. (He wasn't, he was going to use it to winch a tractor up on a trailer, lol) She was 7 months old when she did that.
A few months back I had a prowler in my backyard. She put the back bedroom window out. After that she didn't have to go out after him - he was GONE, and I feel fairly safe in saying he probably had to go home and change his underwear
She and I walk late at night in town. No worries. If someone even looks at us too long from their car she is on alert and ready to go. If there is someone behind us she turns and walks backwards beside me. If she hears gunshots anywhere she is up and looking for the source.
An indication of intelligence: the city cops here have harassed us; their dogs bark at us. Kharma HATES the city cops. She can also differentiate not only between the city cops themselves and the county cops, even though the uniforms are nearly identical, she differentiates between the cars . . . and the city has cars with two different paint schemes! One predominantly white with black, the other black and silver. I have no idea how she knows, but she does.
Oh, and your remark about the Pit Bulls . . . I've also got an APBT
Plus, we can't agree on a standard, and I hope we never do. It keeps the AKC out of the picture. Filas are a stand alone breed. We'll unite to protect our dogs, but we aren't the kind to group in clubs. When that starts happening, you can look for it to be the death knell for our breed.
Bunny . . . training . . . well, it's more of an alliance than training really. There's give and take. And Filas need a reason. They are rational, thinking, deliberating creatures. They understand cause and effect - well enough to instigate a sequence of cause and effect events on their own.
When they are pups, it's like dealing with a very precocious, very intelligent, very clever child, but that phase passes quickly into adolescence - which can be trying, lol! Expect things like a total disregard for previously good recall. As maturity sets in, so does reason.
Your Fila will likely have a strange and warped sense of humor also. Be prepared
But once your Fila is seven or eight months old, you will have very little to worry about as far as human aggression. Kharma disarmed a very large man she thought was threatening when he pulled a 3 foot steel bar out of his truck and started walking toward us. (He wasn't, he was going to use it to winch a tractor up on a trailer, lol) She was 7 months old when she did that.
A few months back I had a prowler in my backyard. She put the back bedroom window out. After that she didn't have to go out after him - he was GONE, and I feel fairly safe in saying he probably had to go home and change his underwear
She and I walk late at night in town. No worries.
If someone even looks at us too long from their car she is on alert and ready to go. If there is someone behind us she turns and walks backwards beside me. If she hears gunshots anywhere she is up and looking for the source.An indication of intelligence: the city cops here have harassed us; their dogs bark at us. Kharma HATES the city cops. She can also differentiate not only between the city cops themselves and the county cops, even though the uniforms are nearly identical, she differentiates between the cars . . . and the city has cars with two different paint schemes! One predominantly white with black, the other black and silver. I have no idea how she knows, but she does.
Oh, and your remark about the Pit Bulls . . . I've also got an APBT
