[eastforker]

I swear that dog knows something is up. She loves her bed but if she is out there watching she knows something ain't right.

[bluejean]

Yeah I trust my boy. We were walking last summer and I was heading into a green way and he stopped and refused to go with me. He was intense about it. Staring into that area and then trying to get me to go the other way. I’m looking down there trying to see what he sees and notice a very well camouflaged large coyote watching us in the trees.

GOOD dog. If he says there’s something out there, it’s there. I trust him.

[captmar-vell]

You have a great member of the family there,

What breed of dog is Lucy?

I’ve thought about getting a dog, would need to be small(ish)

[sheikdetailfeather]

String some twine low to the ground here and there and tie it to something solid on both sides. That way the dog can get to them before they get away. lol! (Just remember you put the twine there so you don’t trip on it.) I know it worked for me when I had someone wandering around my place at night. I also put a giant animated dracula behind the hedges and tied it. When the twine was broken I knew they had set the dracula off. It moans and screams and the head goes round and round. I also got a stealth cam and set it up out there. Things have been quiet ever since. It takes pics as well as having a video mode.

[capydick]

My boy actually woke us up at 4:30 am one morning last month barking like crazy at the bedroom window - young man who was stoned out of his gourd tried to rob my truck but was so wasted he passed out in my truck - I kid you not. Turns out this guy has been robbing vehicles in my neighborhood for a couple years and when they got a search warrant for his house - they found all kinds of stolen goods there.

My boy got two cheeseburgers that evening as his reward!

[chris37]

My dog will protect me with her life, and I will protect my dog with my life.

There simply is no better companion in this world in my mind than a good dog.

I have never seen a more alert animal in all my life. If anything in her environment is out of the ordinary, I know instantly just from observing her body language.

This is especially helpful while walking, because she can spot other animals and people long before I can, but usually don’t have any trouble with people around here.

[kanawa]

Bump

[WVKayaker]

I live in the Philippines now, and almost every house has a dog or two or three. Some of them like to bark into the night, and others all night. I sleep through the noise.Also, most of the houses have high walls and often barbed wire tops. It discourages most anyone with bad intentions.

But, we decided to get one for our own, and looked around. I found a Doberman puppy and have raised him to be gentle but wary. He is learning his trade well. At 7 months, he won't bark or growl at friends, but strangers get a sharp, strong voice. He sleeps on the floor of our bedroom, and makes it through the night, even with the noise from the others.

But, if anyone rattles our front gate, he instantly wakes and barks to warn us. Most of the neighbors and passersby walk the other side of the street, to acknowledge they know we have a big dog!

Nothing beats a good dog for friendship and security!

[Salamander]

For miles up and down RT 40, people got their cars and outbuildings broken into, one summer.

*Twice*.

Even though the neighbor’s barn, not even 30 feet from my house, got cleaned out, we were not touched.

The first time, my iPad, iPhone and two iPods were in the front seat of the unlocked car, mere yards from his barn.

About 4am, the Portuguese Podengo Medio, who keeps watch out the picture window in my art studio started barking and the Dobes ran to the window and put their two cents in.

The second time, the PPM was asleep in the living room but Odin was looking out the side yard window which faces the ridge.

He started snarling so I got up and let him out the front door.

He took off around the back of the house and I heard fast steps going up over the ridge.

[i assume they thought they’d avoid the security cams and dogs by sneaking in through the woods]

The dog came back very frustrated.

He was in the mood for fresh meat.

*If* there’s ever another time, I’m going to wait a bit and turn the Dobe bitch out.

She’s faster and meaner.

[Arthur McGowan]

Some of my ancestors had a dog who wouldn’t let the milkman take the empty bottles. Periodically, when the porch was getting full of bottles, they would arrange to keep the dog inside so the man could take them.

[zeestephen]

Pope Francis recently comforted a young boy whose dog had died by saying, “All dogs go to heaven.”

[wardaddy]

My Rottie is getting Michelin Man training as we speak

Confidence enhancement for perceived threats

[cva66snipe]

I use Two Feist Security Service. I have three Bunker Hill motion sensors hidden on my driveway to give me time to be ready. I can watch the Rattys reactions to it. If one goes off they don't do anything likely a deer or false alarm. If two go off they are listening. If the third goes off or they hear a vehicle after the first one they sound off. The big one 20 lbs is the CEO and the Toy at about 10 lbs is the VP in charge of bad ass LOL.

I'm half deaf so they give me plenty of heads up if I'm asleep and my hearing aids are out. Nobody is going to walk in on us without them waking me up first.

[exnavy]

Nuttin’ like a good dog and a 12 gauge pump for things that go bump.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Lived in a somewhat isolated 1825 farmhouse. We had filled it with period antiques. Someone had backed in a box truck ready to load up. Footprints in the snow up to a side window where they intended to break in. Stride was normal walking length. Stride away from the window was someone running for their life! Guess they met Pandy (Pandemonium) at the window. Pandy was a very large Briard. I’m 6’2” tall, and he could stand up. put his front paws on my shoulders, and look me straight in the eyes. Also very thick sheepdog fur. Probably looked like a big black bear to the thieves! They never came back!

[Gen.Blather]

Recall the Farside cartoon where the two dogs in the living room are talking with an old lady reading in the background. One says, “Watch this. I’m going to point at the closet, bristle and growl.”

[Gaffer]

My daughter has two dogs. A big Dobie and a Heinz with what looks like a very distant strain of Pit in him. He, however is the biggest chicken there is. But he barks, and alerts the Dobie. Both sleep upstairs with her and the girls when hubby is away on bidness.

They are there to alert and buy time. Time for my daughter to pull out the S&W 686 and/or the S&W 625. She is very, very good with either and unafraid of them.

[Arlis]

We live in the woods on the end of 1/2 mile drive. Great collie for watch dog.

Most bad guys will be scared to come all the way down here - no other way out, just our house and son’s house 300’ from us.

Signs all over down the drive: “Small Arms Fire Practice at any time 24x7x365: Trespass at Your Own Risk!” A metal body target riddled with .45 holes center mass and center head, “Security System Always Armed”, in addition to No Trespassing signs.

Arms hidden all over house for immediate emergency access.

VERY risky for any bad guys to try anything here....

Even police comment on the signs if they come down here....wondering what they will find.....

[Leaning Right]

I read somewhere that sophisticated burglars carry raw meat to distract dogs, and then use a iron bar to finish them off (sorry to have to type that).

Is there any truth to that, or is it an urban legend? And if there is any truth to it, how can such an action be thwarted?

[central_va]

My alarm system knows friend from foe(iff capable) and can take a hunk out of an intruders ass. Can First alert do that?

[Din Maker]

When interviewed, people who are known “home invaders” say the best deterrents to home crimes are:

#1. Adequate lighting and

#2. A dog “inside” the house. And, perps are really hesitant to break into a house where they hear TWO dogs barking. They figure they might be able to handle one, but, not two at the same time.