Least Aggressive Dogs
July 16, 2008 · Print This Article
As promised yesterday, here are the dogs that scored very low on the aggression scale in the study recently reported in the Applied Animal Behavior Science journal. This study, compiled by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, involved asking 6,000 dog owners about their dog’s behavior. Thirty-three different breeds were catalogued and rated according to how aggressive they are.
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The dogs that were least aggressive were:
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Basset Hound
Golden Retriever
Labradors
Siberian Huskies
Greyhounds
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The Rottweiler, often assumed to be very aggressive, ranked average in its hostility towards strangers.Â
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The researchers did note, however, that even though small dogs headed the most aggressive list and big dogs headed the least aggressive list, the bites from the larger dogs were more likely to have required medical attention than those from the smaller dogs.
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Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
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I think you’re exactly right. In the event a big dog bites you it’s more dramatic but little dog bites can be handled with a band aid most of the time.
i have a Golden Retriever and it’s true that they are least aggressive than other dogs.. in fact my pet is so sweet..
I don’t think that a dogs aggressiveness depends on the breed of a dog. I hav e had many dogs of all different breeds and i have noticed that when they had come from disturbed backgrounds, they were much more aggressive. I had had a pitbull and a yellow lab a couple years back. I had raised the pit and then adopted the lab after she was abused very badly. My pit was very loving and never aggressive. The lab on the other hand she was very timid and very territorial.