Max is still not fully housetrained. We have a designated indoor spot covered with towels, and since he only goes #2 outdoors when he is at a new park and training him further would mean removing the towels – thus endangering the apartment security deposit -, we like the current situation. When we got him, he was six months old, had been shot with a shotgun, beaten, and was under-weight. He is now pushing the upper-limit on weight, has always loved kid in the parks, but hates stranger who are grown, especially men, those wearing hats, and any strangers that walk up swinging something.
I’m working on those, but it’s not all bad. I walk late at night and early in the morning in a bad neighborhood, and anything he sees someone when it’s dark, he growls and BACKS INTO ME. Mom was walking him once when a hoodlum with a big knife strapped to his ankle ran up and kept trying to grab Max – who barked like mad and almost bit the guy. Only time he has ever gone for the bite. He has never bitten anyone, for that matter. Not even in the bath – and to begin with he thought we were drowning him. He actually swung round once, trying to dodge the sprayer (not on a hard setting!) and hit the faucet hard enough his forehead bled for an hour!
Still – not aggressive, or even worried unless you are a stranger AND wear a baseball cap, or sunglasses, or a poofy winter coat, or carry a bat, or have scary hair… ;)