My friend had a "dog" golden retriever along with a escape artist husky that would get through the electric shock collar by wearing down the battery by sitting close enough to the line to get constantly shocked at the warning shock threshold, or would just bear the pain and bust through the line until he was out of range of the device. But the other was also a nutcase! I remember the countless times where I would be baited into playing fetch with him and never being able to make him stop, even after throwing the stick/toy for hours and hours and his coat was drenched in sweat. One time we took him to a big lake at the park and he started drowning as he was coming back with the ball, he could barely swim and would go under for a moment and come back up, when he finally reached the shore he was still not fazed at all! Awful creatures those things, very loving but DUMB AS A ROCK!

We have a pitbull lab mix we got from offerup for $40 when she was 3 months old.Great dog but cannot be trusted off her chain or unsupervised on the property. Not even two weeks ago my wife tied her with her walking leash she got away after she broke the leash, and murdered one of our ducks by breaking the little 2 foot fence with her brawny self. I gave her the beating of a lifetime, smacked her snot so good, not that I relish that. I had caught her just in time as she was about to get our other two ducks that she cornered, happily jumping around in attack mode trying to get to them as they were huddled under the house in between a metal frame. I made her sit in the hot sun for a couple days chained by the pond. She's a baby though, and I couldn't stand her cries for long and moved her back to her house.

I'm sorry to hear that you suffered from what I imagine was a dog attack, I always was close to animals and luckily never had a bad encounter. My friends and roommates at the time, in NorCal, had a neurotic border collie who wore down he front teeth to mere nubs by chewing on her back. She had a litter and murdered her cubs, and would be spiteful to people if you dared to taunt her at all and when there was opportunity she would attack you because of that, grudge much. I never had a problem with her and she always liked me, I would eat breakfast in the back and pet her, she hardly let anybody touch her including her owners. I heard that they ended up putting her down because she couldn't be trusted after they had a baby, she was prone to jealousy and they said it was just a matter of time before she attacked the toddler, as always she just bid her time until an opportunity would present itself, their other dogs, a rednosed pit who was very gentle mother and also a fierce pig hunter, and the brother to the neurotic mess were very well behaved and very smart, no tomfoolery. Like humans some are good, some are bad, and some are a bit in between, I believe it's not genetic, just environmental and reversible, to a limit of course. These cats are going to be in a completely new environment from the city. We live in the country, the oddball that eats competitively won't even eat anything but dried food, not even table scraps or canned cat food but I'm not gonna cater to her by enabling her fat self at all, she gets table scraps or what her mom catches. The other I won't put up with any begging, I will go there and taunt and mock it to death, I know many won't agree but I will post a picture when we get them here in a week or two of exactly how massive they are, they are at least 3 times your cats size if not more, they can still jump up over the 4foot railing of their patio with ease, their leg muscles are humongous, it looks like a bodybuilders arms almost, but they are definitely not healthy in the sense that they're neurotic about eating not just their size. I'm telling you, fattest cats ever!