so, so gentle and soft - with us ! whim was our pup when she 'assigned' herself to us - she attacked him - i hit her, and then she let whim bite her nose off, angrily, for half hour, without doing anything back to him - she understood the rules straight away !- not once after that did she ever be aggressive with him ( except trying to teach him how to fight - at which he was totally useless! lol)