I grew up with a purebred, show-quality Vizsla. She is very much a part of the family, very affectionate, but also completely vicious. She wouldn't attack completely unprovoked, but she wouldn't hesitate to bite right through your hand if you wanted to move her off the couch she wasn't allowed on, or you tried to take something off of her that she stole, or if you tried to touch her feet. We've heard of other people having this same problem with this breed of dog. She's normally very pleasant, playful, and sweet... unless she chooses to misbehave and we try to stop her. She's smart enough to know that she's doing something wrong, and she knows that if she bites us we recoil. My cousin's Dalmatian is the same way. My aunt's cock-a-poo would bite anyone with NO provocation (until it tried to bite a truck tire on a truck that happened to be moving at the time. Yes, it ran after and ATTACKED a MOVING TRUCK.)

So, like, why don't you ever hear about this on the news? I have never once heard a story like "Child attacked by Vizsla, required stitches" or "Toddler mauled by vicious Cock-a-Poo" even though these happened in my family and probably in many others with these same breeds of dogs.