I understand what you mean Triple333. My daughter has a Rotty, Diesel is the most placid big lump, would lick you to death more than anything else. A real gentle giant who wants to play with everyone.

I confess I have been nervous of rotties since I met people in the riverland SA who had no control and thought it was reasonable to offer the distraught owner of a little dog their rottie killed a replacement pet!
While I know that it is the owners and not the dogs who are responsible for the pet's behaviour, it's just that the rottie is so big that if not properly trained he will be impossible to control through physical strength alone.
Having said that, I have a tiny dog who attacks big dogs (no sense at all) and I couldn't blame any dog for biting back if attacked. Therefore I always try to camp away from people with big dogs to prevent problems and vets bills.
So why is it that so many times people will camp right up close when there is plenty of other space, even tho I have explained the problem and asked them not to?
Just last week this happened again at Moura Qld. A huge bus parked so close to me I couldn't even get any sun on the panels, although there was plenty of room elsewhere and I had specifically parked a long way from the facilities. I approached him about the problem before he started setting up and he asserted that he always keeps his 2 blues chained up. Arrogant jerk he was too, and 20 minutes later his dog is in my annexe with no chain evident. (Don't get me wrong, I've had blue dogs in the past and adore them)
I just gave up, packed up and moved on.
With a little care and consideration we can all get on, but there's not much to be done when someone just doesn't give a damn about his neighbour.

Interesting its along time since I heard the term "Huntaway", I used to be on farms (stations in NZ as a kid, and would go out with the guys mobbing sheep. Each guy (shepherd) would have a team of dogs all specialized to do different things i.e. heading, eye, huntaway. Over here there just dogs. And from what I've seen the farmer does most of the barking!

Our previous dog was a female Rotti x English bullmastif, she looked pure Rotti but weighed in at 60kg ! yes a big girl, but, she was the most faithful gentle natured dog I have ever had.
My grandkids used to ride her around our garden like a horse !

She became my eternal shadow and I could not go anywhere without her being by my side, we didn't travel full time then but did many short holidays in CP's here in WA with no issue's once the manager or owners had met her personally.

I was devastated when we lost her to bone cancer at 7 years old.

How these so called aggressive dogs are perceived is the big problem, yes some can and are aggressive I know, but not all are, but other people don't know this, the problem lies with silly "gung ho"owners that think I've got a Rottweiller so I'm tough, and the dogs are usually brought up with same nature I'm afraid.

Having said all that, I don't think they are the ideal dog to caravan with, any big dog is automatically perceived as a problem.

Laughing.... One CP stated the other, day when I rang to ask, "we don't discriminate against big people, so why would we discriminate about big dogs?" "So long as all are friendly and well behaved, we don't care!"

Ah, a glimmer of hope