I think the heart of Chopper's owner is in the right place, and I admire her immensely for trying to clear her dog's name. Whether or not the best way to go about doing that is to turn him into a therapy dog, I'm not sure, but really I wish her the best of luck and hopes everything works out for her and Chopper.
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One is led to wonder, if Chopper was a Golden Retriever or a Labrador that had accidently bitten it's owner and it had then gone through the training and passed - would we still think it was a bad idea?
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The answer to that, for me anyway, would definitely be "Yes." It is not the wisdom of training a rottweiller to be a therapy dog that people are questioning (I don't think), but the wisdom of taking a dog around somewhat fragile people that has already inflicted injury on it's owner. I know she says he accidentally bit her, but it also says he ripped tendons and broke several bones, so I wonder if it was really a quick one bite type of thing, or a more prolonged incident.
I agree with both of you to an extent there. When a dog has bitten before, there is always a thought in the back of your mind that they'll bite again. However, if this was about a labrador, for instance, I don't believe that it would hit the news, it would be more likely to be swept under the carpet and pretended the incident never happened.