[AnAmericanMother]

My girls are good watchdogs, but they agree -- it's MY job to haul out the shotgun and go check.

I guess they figure they'll retrieve the body afterwards.

[Mr Rogers]

In all honesty, the pound mutt may be the smartest of the three. He is mostly untrainable, but very smart. He has ZERO desire to obey, but genuinely is ‘scary’ smart.

Don’t know if it is the Lab, or GSD, or luck (?) - my wife sometimes worries that he may actually BE a human reincarnated, although she doesn’t believe in reincarnation.

But a guard dog who alerts and doesn’t attack is a dog you can trust with kids. And isn’t it a delight to talk about our dogs!