Posted On: July 6, 2007, 3:30 pm CDT

Posted By: GB

It will take time, but I really do believe that those dogs will eventually not be mainstream dogs anymore. The cost of ownership will become too great. It will be like smoking cigarettes. Once it was the accepted thing to do, then it was just tolerated, and in another 5-10 years the label "smoker" will be on par with wife beater, or drug user.

I don't want to hijack this thread and turn it into a smoking discussion, I am just using the progression of society's attitude about smoking as an example. I think society's acceptance of Dobermans and Rotwielers will diminish to the point that they are no longer mainstream pets and will only exist as watchdogs or fighting dogs.