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How would your pooch react to an intruder?
CBS ATLANTA ^ | Nov 12, 2012 | Jeff Chirico

Posted on 11/12/2012 6:03:49 PM PST by Daffynition

ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) -

How much faith should you put in Fido?

CBS Atlanta News conducted an exclusive experiment to see if dogs would protect their homes from a would-be burglar.

Some fight. Another flees. And one gets carried out the front door.
 
Our subjects include the following dogs:
 
Calico is a Brittany Spaniel who weighs 38 lbs. Find out how Calico reacts to the intruder here.

Bindi is an English Staffordshire Terrier who weighs 29 lbs. Find out how Bindi reacts to the intruder here.

Star is a Papillon mix who weighs 10 lbs. Find out how Star reacts to the intruder here.

Roxie is a Rottweiler who weighs 82 lbs. Find out how Roxie reacts to the intruder here.

Kevlar is a German Shepherd who weighs 100 lbs. Find out how Kevlar reacts to the intruder here.



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To: Daffynition
LOL. My Lab always picked up her baby (toy) to run to the door. Or, sniff the backside of anyone in the yard. That always made utility workers jump.
21 posted on 11/12/2012 6:21:49 PM PST by Bronzy
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To: Daffynition

Too bad Australian Cattle Dog is not on the list. Our one is especially aggressive towards any stranger, and always barks at anything in the range of her senses.


22 posted on 11/12/2012 6:22:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Farmer Dean

My Dad’s German Shepard was absolutely useless. It didn’t bark at the intruders. It only started barking when he scuffled with the intruders, but did nothing to really protect him.


23 posted on 11/12/2012 6:24:08 PM PST by rbg81
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To: Daffynition

Our Shih Tzu might bark a little, but she considers every visitor to be a new best friend so she’d probably roll over on her back for a tummy scratch.


24 posted on 11/12/2012 6:25:35 PM PST by ken in texas (I was taught to respect my elders but it keeps getting harder to find any.)
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To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; afraidfortherepublic; ...
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25 posted on 11/12/2012 6:27:51 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Daffynition

I have a black lab that weighs in at about 120 lbs, he loves people and when you look at him he smiles. It is creepy and freaks out strangers, he wags his tail and bares his teeth at the same time, kind of a silence of the lambs thing.


26 posted on 11/12/2012 6:28:46 PM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: Daffynition

We were burgaled a few years back. We had our small beagle/basset mix in the back part of the house with the doors closing off that part of the house. She’s a small dog with a big bark and the burglars didn’t enter that part of the house.


27 posted on 11/12/2012 6:31:33 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Daffynition

Years ago I read an article on guard dogs and hope it was not an Urban Legend. Some guy saw a German Shepherd for sale - CHEAP - in a local classified.

Intrigued, he visited the owner, who ran a small country general store. The owner had been burgled a couple of times and bought a “vicious” German Shepherd to guard the place at night.

Sure enough, one night a buglar broke in and ransacked the store. The dog slept through the whole thing.

When the Sheriff came to investigate, the dog woke up and bit him.

Hence the low sale price.


28 posted on 11/12/2012 6:33:05 PM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Daffynition

LOL, Kevlar the Shepherd is a big baby!

We don’t have a dog, but my sister-in-law had a gorgeous German Shepherd for protection. He was trained in the Schitzhund (sp?) method. He would likely have killed a real intruder.

With family, though, he was a sweetheart. I miss that dog.


29 posted on 11/12/2012 6:33:22 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (The idiocracy has come home to roost. God help us.)
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To: dangerdoc
"bares his teeth at the same time"

Showing some tooth as part of the Happy Smile is not big deal. It's when the lips are retracted and the hair rises that it becomes a concern (like my part Chesapeake).

My Black Lab has big white teeth (that's all they can see, 'cause NO light is reflected by the dog) that scare folks (who obviously don't know Labs) when she smiles the Happy Dog Smile.

30 posted on 11/12/2012 6:34:03 PM PST by Paladin2 (.)
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To: Daffynition

I don’t know how our dogs would react. Our newer dog is a chow mix but she’s pretty cautious and I would not put it past her to at least bark and growl. Whether she would bite I don’t know. They alert to anyone walking by the house. Our Rottie/GSD mix is big and intimidating but he wants to be everyone’s friend. He did growl at someone he saw approaching the front door. How he would act once they were in the house I don’t know. The problem with pets is often they are reprimanded against barking or growling at anyone in your home, so unless they are trained, they aren’t likely to do anything to anyone once they’ve entered the home IMHO.


31 posted on 11/12/2012 6:36:03 PM PST by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: Daffynition

My wee angels? They bark, but that’s it. Not a bit of threat to anyone, ever.

Of course I’m the one with the trigger finger.

We make a good team.


32 posted on 11/12/2012 6:37:03 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (John Winthrop's "City upon a Hill" just became a midden heap. Infested with rats and other vermin.)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve read that about ACD’s, they’re on my list of possibilities if and when I get a dog.

For now, my cat rules the roost. And she is one heck of a guard cat, too! Some workmen were fixing the electicals on the side of the house once, as soon as they got near the porch she turned into a snarling, yowling monster. Which was quite a surprise, because she’s usually such a people-cat.


33 posted on 11/12/2012 6:37:11 PM PST by Ellendra (http://www.ustrendy.com/ellendra-nauriel/portfolio/18423/concealed-couture/)
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To: rbg81

It’s always a question of getting the right dog.I tell the breeder what kind of personality we want,and so far he’s provided the right dogs.The parents have always been Schutzhund rated,their offspring have had what it takes.


34 posted on 11/12/2012 6:37:37 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Daffynition

My poochies(Nemo-half Pomeranian, half maltese) would bark like crazy, then flip over for tummy rubs..Maxie(Pure bred Shih tzu) would just bark but do nothing


35 posted on 11/12/2012 6:38:05 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Paladin2
Photobucket This is my dog Chloe's "happy dog smile".
36 posted on 11/12/2012 6:44:25 PM PST by yarddog (One shot one miss.)
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To: Daffynition

My dog Goober treats each doorbell ring initially as possible fresh meat and if she doesn’t recognize you, you probably will be!


37 posted on 11/12/2012 6:44:43 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (The law of unintended consequences is an unforgiving and vindictive b!tch!)
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To: Daffynition
Don't come near my home uninvited ... Unless you've got BACON!


38 posted on 11/12/2012 6:48:32 PM PST by Baynative
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To: visualops

“The problem with pets is often they are reprimanded against barking or growling at anyone in your home, so unless they are trained, they aren’t likely to do anything to anyone once they’ve entered the home IMHO.”

My dogs, two shelties, continue barking until I tell them NO BARK. When they bark, whether it be thunder, or a package left on porch with bell being run, or whatever, they usually will not stop until I get up, go look and tell them it is ok and good little guard dogs. :)

That said, I hope I never have to find out. I spend a lot of time at home alone these days, I’m a SAHM, so I love having them and they give me a bit of a sense of security, not as much as my various guns do, but again, hope I don’t have to use them. I will though.


39 posted on 11/12/2012 6:50:41 PM PST by Qwackertoo (Going into Politic Free Zone Momma Grizzly hibernation for a while after this week, maybe forever.)
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To: All

I know right now what would happen. My Shiatsu-Yorkie mix would yap her ass off till they got in, the 60 pound border-collie/lab would not bark would lick attack and then show them where the silver was.

Like others I count on he little one waking me then I grab my bedside gun.


40 posted on 11/12/2012 6:52:01 PM PST by USAFJeeper (Who Dat Nation - Loving the Manning Face!)
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