word, but as i said our wolfhound was a very good-natured dog - he never ever bit any dog or person, and he hardly ever barked. in fact it was the calmest dog you could imagine. funny story: my father had an irish setter when he was younger. he got it from an "homeless dogs institution" (what's the proper expression in english ?) and that setter was very grimy. one time he saw a guy with a pitbull, and he was like "yo dude, please put your dog on the lead because mine is aggressive towards other male dogs". the dude was like "whatever - let them go at each other". my father let the setter go and the setter went at the pitbull, bit a piece out of his ear and the pitbull went off squeaking instantly. but the dog would never have attacked anyone of our family. in fact i used to grab him by the ears and i learn to walk that way as a toddler... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> word some dogs look like they could kill a person but they actually do no harm at all. By the way I think the english term for that is dog pound.