What is a Gansta Dog? - Page 4

Ibrahim there is no "bulshit" in what I or Gustav are saying. Take it or leave it.

Joan nice dog if he did that even though that alone does not necessarily mean that he was a Gangster dog. But I would not be surprised if he was. His Great grandfather Furo certainly was one.
Prager Hans

It wasn't breaking the down, or just going for that guy helping me....decoys could not so much as tap the blind as he came around, as he would not even see a sleeve. Instead he he would go for the decoy's neck/shoulder area. Just an example...and during breeding, afterwards, I had assistants with the female stay put, not try to walk the female away until I removed the male a put him in the house...otherwise he became very aggressive and would go for the female and her handler; stuff like that.
BTW, Furo was his sire, not grandsire :-)

Prager,

Maybe I wasn't clear, I am protesting against some guys who think old timers tell bullshit, sorry if I wasn't clear. I would never be unkind to Gustav, or impolite to such a sincere guy

Joan   Sounds like a gangster dog and I am sure you used him correctly in your breeding rogram.  I though that this was his pedigree. :

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/dog.html?id=1967040-otto-vom-ron

Ibrahim I am sorry I misunderstood. it did not sound right. :)

 Sorry. Hans 

That's my Otto, yes, the green dog jumping into pickup. He's no push over, either:-)
The 'gangster' is Otto's grand sire Body, who I raised from eight weeks old, trained and titled.(from jipo-me)

In my area a "gangsta dog" - note lower case - is just as much about the person who owns the dog and what purpose such a dog serves. Also heavily weighted is appearance rather than substance.

A dog of a certain type simply scares most reasonable people because they know it has been treated poorly, not had certain needs met, will attack without provocation, and that the owner must use brute force in order to control it. Such a dog, along with being kept as a guard dog for a drug or cash stash, might make up for the owner having an empty nut sack.

Someone else mentioned the rather disturbing practice of crossing a fighting type of mastiff with a breed such as an Am Staff or an APBT - as if these dogs need to be made bigger and uglier. I have seen such dogs coming out of nearby bigger cities. A couple of gangster types were running these monstrosities in a local park, probably looking to expand their customer base. Local gangsta dogs come from the pound, backyard breeders, or abandoned in the Birge Pond area. Cheap is great. Free is perect.

Kinalog: absolutely. Your Borough/State sounds JUST like
the UK ! [Where's Birge Pond located, so we can avoid it !?!]

Although I no longer live in London, this production of 'gangster'
and 'Ban' dogs was - still is - common, especially in those rougher
areas where there was a concentration of drug-dealing, crack houses
when crack was still the main thing, and the storage of crime proceeds
that are linked, inevitably, with those activities. There is also a link,
going back a little further, to the horrible reputation Rottweilers got,
since they too were being used (and abused) as 'front doorstep blockers'.

I have to point out that in a lifetime of contacts with GSD fans including
those in the LE/sports/working arena, I had never come across anyone
talking seriously about "gangster" GSDs, or Maligators, - however you
want to spell it, - before Hans raised this topic.