@[email protected] @[email protected] My grandmother used to train great danes, an other type of large dog with a generally good temperament. Nearly all small little dogs (puppies or just smaller breeds) seemed entirely happy to play with, try to threaten and/or, for the adult dogs, romantically engage with the danes despite it being obviously physically impossible for them to impact the danes at all (many of the smaller dogs were shorter than the danes' knees). That did rather immediately change on the one occasion I saw a dane get actually angry with a smaller dog, but even then the caution only lasted as long as the growling did.

@0xabad1dea I have even seen differences with in breeds. I have met chihuahuas who are very social and will walk right up to you, and I've met chihuahuas that will sit in the corner and shake if there's any other human they don't know in the room. Dogs are people.