Dogs are like their owners?

[Atheist-Lite]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18175053

Disagreeable people 'prefer aggressive dogs'

"Less agreeable" people are more likely to prefer dogs associated with aggression, according to psychologists.

A study at the University of Leicester compared human personality type with the breed of dog they would choose.

Dogs with a reputation for aggression were more popular with people who were "less concerned with the needs of others and quicker to become hostile".

Researchers say the results support the idea that dogs are likely to match their owners.

The study took a range of popular dogs and ranked them according to their reputations for being more or less aggressive.

At one end of the scale was a Staffordshire bull terrier and the other was a cocker spaniel.

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[maiforpeace]

Sure...dogs have personalities like people, it makes sense that a person would choose a dog with similar personality characteristics. Over time as the relationship deepens they probably affect/compliment each other and become even more pronounced.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It would be difficult to sort out how much of the dog's aggressive character was trained into it by the owner.