do any of you have a doberman that isn't protective?

on a walk...duchess will become alert when an oncoming person is walking towards us
we have never had an experience where duchess has needed to be protective but at the house...it seems like as long as we are familiar and are okay with the person...even if she has never met them, she will greet them with a wiggling tail and kisses...and a welcome by sitting on their lap when they sit on the couch.

there was a time actually when an old woman was confused and walked into our house on accident...and this is the only time continued along with our (fearful) lab mix barking after she entered...
but duchess only barked...and settled down once we greeted the old woman and assured them we were okay. of course we didnt get mad at them for barking at the old woman.

other than that experience...she is not extremely protective...she will show discomfort with someone once and awhile...but she has never even bared her teeth at someone ever like while growling.

she doesnt mind people going up and down the sidewalk next to our yard...but she did get huffy and puffy and bark at people when I had her outside on a leash...and some people pulled over and stopped to look at something my dad was selling by the driveway.

but she settles down once I assure her it is nothing.

I dont consider that she is or isnt protective...I think she knows when she should be concerned...

Lexus isn't in an obvious protection mode 100% of the time, nor would I want her to be. But it is on her mind. Last month I had a person stop by to pick up a cat she adopted from me, I had the dogs out on the back porch, and we were standing in the kitchen talking, she noticed the dogs (who hadn't noticed her yet) and went to my back glass door, "ohhh you have a dog how cute", Lexus hit the door hard enough in full guard-dog fashion to make this woman back right back out of my kitchen again!

Lexus reacted appropriately, she didn't know someone was in the house with me, and all of a sudden there is a stranger standing at her door in her house with her mom. After I explained to the lady, that Lex will accept her when she knows that she[the woman] is allowed to be there, I brought Lex in, and introduced her properly with not so much as a growl or a hair raised and the "nubbin" going a mile a minute the whole time, and in a minute she was in full dobie-lean on her leg

When she was younger I used to wonder if she would just love on any bad people, but now... not worried, my family and I are in good paws