That is horrifying!
Thank God you were not harmed!
I *never* ignore my dogs.
They have distinctive barks for everything and I know when they’re barking just to hear themselves bark, play-barking or barking because something is not right, somewhere.
Over the years, I’ve had dogs save me from things as serious as a wandering kidnapper/rapist [didn’t know what the guy was at the time the dog uncharacteristically and of his own free will, tried to eat him..the cops told me, later], death from smoke inhalation as I slept, an ex who was strangling me to things as ‘minor’ as a small animal trapped in something that would’ve resulted in its death to ‘arcing’ electrical stuff.
A good dog is worth much more than its weight in gold.
[or a Golden Retriever, as the case may be]
:)
Well, I was very tired from a strenuous weekend of preparing the house for sale and getting my husband off to the “Red Eye” flight. My dog seemed to be barking incessently at the neighbors’ dogs (several acres away) who were answering.
Believe me, my blood ran cold when I realized the next day what had happened. We’d lived there 5 years (in this isolated location) with a garage that had no front and no side. Nothing had ever been touched. So, we didn’t think about leaving the garage window ajar to keep the newly painted window from sticking. This was in the Pacific Northwest where the weather assures that paint takes a long time to cure.
Probably I did the right thing, because the wrong thing would have been for me to fly out the back door and confront the thieves. I know exactly who did it because the “gas” they stole was diesel and their car was found, konked out on a logging road (gas powered engines don’t run long on diesel) not far from our house. For that matter, their fingerprints were pressed into the windowsill. But the cops weren’t interested. They just gave us a case number for our insurance claim and said that our tools were probably sold on the bar that very night at a local tavern!
As beautiful as that house and land were, I was glad to move.