How come those little brown dogs bite so hard? - Page 1

The Malinois is one of the hardest biting dogs there is.
But why is that? If you have decoyed for 25 years or
so you would have taken 100's of bites from different
dogs. The bullmastiff has a hard bite, but it is spread out
, like the rottweiler with alot of compression. The German
shepherd will bite and thrash around pulling his bite farther
and farther back to his molars. But a good Malinois will
almost engage a full bite and than squeeze it for all it's worth.
The Dobies are known for there large K9 teeth that can
rip away flesh. ...Each breed has a very distinctive bite,
but usually fallows a pattern of aggression commited to the
full bite or non committed .

The Malinois has a bite of a dog you would think is much
bigger, like the Cane Corso, or the Beauceron.
I think it has more to do with their nervous system, rather
than muscle or size.....What do you Think?

I think the above is full of shit!

why? 4 pack

Nice grip on the dog above. But the decoy is just standing there too.

Sorry Max, but for every mal with a nice full grip, there's another with a crappy grip. I ain't buying it.

Because I see too many crappy Mals that don't bite well at all. There is no way I would ever say they are  as a whole a "harder" bitting dog. I have yet to see one bite harder than my GSD. I kow this because the decoys tell me so and I have more than 1 pic of hamburger arms, through the suit.

I guess all those decoys have been lying about my GSD's big hard bite, too. I guess they faked the scars they got thru the bite suit. 

Respectfully disagree, mainlymax. I dont think you can qualify the bite of a Mal as super hard. If it feels hard, it comes out of the speed that it brings to engage. If left alone, it will not sustain the power. But of course there are dogs that are great, as with all dog breeds.

However, if you do helper work, then you know that there is a reason that you teach a Mal to push into you, and a GSD to pull away from you.

I gotta say I hardly agree with the first post.  I've had some very hard biters, but then none were any harder than other hard biting GSD's or any other hard biting dog from another breed.  and the breed definitely has its share of shallow, crappy, nervous biters.

Elkoorr,
                 I have the privilege of working the hardest
biting dogs in the world. 2 dogs I remember well
one was a, Bouvier  the other was a Malinois.
They both hurt me enough to be remembered.
Which is saying something....
I have taken bite from some really good
Dutch shepherds in the Netherlands in
the 80's.....But one Malinois is what I remember.
He had and alligator bite..clean full grip. He
did take the bite as I was running away, but it
had nothing to do with his execution...Very good
dog.....By the way my reference is only for
very good dogs.... I stop working dogs that were not
up to bite work when I was still a kid..maybe 14 .
But this is good...because we don't talk enough
about the bite and share notes.