Oh, and if you have experience in dog training, you might be interested also to work with Dominican dogs. My experience is, that many of them learn much faster than any full bread dog. Many people in Europe ask me, in which dog training school my dog was, because their amased how well trained my dog is. I usually answer - at the beach in the DR
I guess their so intelligent, because their bread is "natural selection". Meaning, only the clever ones survived in the last couple hundred years, only the one's that figured out, how to cross streets whitout getting hit by a car and only the one's that where able to find food and not getting poisoned. Because most Dominican dogs live by themselves in the streets and on the beaches and even if they have owners, they mostly have to find their own food.
But once they have a loving owner, they're sooo thanksful and do everything for that person. Their wonderful family pets and great watchdogs / personal protection dogs. They sense instingtively who they can trust and who not. My dogs chased away many thiefs already.
I remember especially one scene, where a man came to our (rented) house that looked very friendly to me. He told me that the house owner sent him to do some work in the house. He was even nice to my one dog that was with me in the garden and seemed not afraid, like most Dominicans. But my dog would growl at him and put herself between him and me, not letting the man closer to the house or me. I told my dog that it's ok and she should let the man in, which she understands normally very well. But in this situation she would not listen (luckily!) and even took the man by his pants, as he tried to come closer.
The man finally left, because my dog was acting agressively like I never saw her before. Some minutes after the man left, my neighbours came and told me that someone broke in to their house. They told me, that when they came home, they saw someone running out - and described me the man in my garden! How it turned out, an other neighbour, a young European girl, got raped by the exact same man, shortly before he was in my garden!!!
Some Haitian construction workers, that saw the (Dominican) thief and rapist run away, went after him and catched him at the beach, after they heard what happend. And the police could arrest him later. It still sends cold shiver down my spine, when I think back on that scenario, that happend about 3 years ago. And thanks God, my Dominican dog protected me so well and didnt listen to me, as I told her to let the man in the house...
