Farmgirl, We once owned a doberman for approximately 6 hours. My wife was shopping at the commissary at Fort Greely , Alaska back in 1983. A female military policeman was transferring to the lower 48 and begged my wife to take her dog. Of course my wife agreed and took the dog to her job where she worked as a cashier in a 4x4 shack at a gas station. The first customer who came to the window startled the dog and it promptly bit my wife on the keister. My wife found the MP at her barracks and returned the dog. You didn't hear it from me but I got quite a kick out of that deal.