I know what you mean TC if you don't make a long post and explain everything it gets taken the wrong way or they pic it apart.
I have a BIG B&T pup that was left on a chain till it was 11 months. Nothing but play very people shy. The play thing is killing me becouse it is bigger than my other dogs. SO I have a 100 lb. ridgeback that lives by the same rule I do. Don't give no sh@#$ Don't take no sh@#$ He's not in the sh@#$ buisness.
He won't start nothing but he will end it in a hurry. As soon as the other dog backs up he will stop. SO the pup is fixing to calm down. Most fo it time I just put a dog like that with another that won't take it and leave them together. But the ridgeback is a house dog. So I will just put them together for a few hours in the cool of an evening.
Might be some real fireworks at my house for a little bit though.