36 Awesome post Mike!
I am always interested in dog behavior and have seen dogs get in between two dogs to prevent conflict or rough play from escalating but had no idea they also do it with humans. So cool to also see it in a real life intense situation.
I don’t have any knowledge in the protection dog world so one of the question that popped up in my mind is that assuming the dog continue to not get any sort of formal training and this EXACT event is to occur again, now that the dog have successfully protected his owner and attacked a person before, would it cause the dog to “pull the trigger” earlier next time around? Or will he be just as “patient” for lack of better word the next time around?