At 13, my first Dobermann stopped my pedo uncle from ever touching me again.
I’ve had them for 40 years, now because I *owe* them.
Even here, in crime-free Appalachia, we had a “spree”, a couple years ago.
*Everybody* along RT 40 got hit, including my neighbor’s shop, not 30 feet from my house.
They even broke into cars and stole anything worth half a damn.
My unlocked car, with an iPad, 2 iPods and and iPhone went untouched.
Why?
Because late at night, the Dobermanns [whose images are prominently displayed on signs outside] went batsh*t at the window facing the lane.
Several weeks later, the thieves came back to steal what peoples’ insurance companies had replaced.
Odin, the male, growled at the window again so I the opened the front door and let him loose in the yard.
I heard him snarling out behind the house where the motorcycle/machine shop is and then heard the sound of leaves crunching up over the ridge.
Never saw who it was but the dog was really miffed he’d gotten away.
Apparently whoever it was thought they could skirt around and hit us from behind, where the dogs would not see them.
As if.
Oh, and the neighbors got hit again, that night.
People even ‘joked’ that we must have known the perps because they never touched us.
Yeah, right.
Since the dawn of time, dog has protected our homes.
yeah, they do have a way of communicating their concerns to people who come to close to the fence, don’t they?
I see you’re already here...I was going to send you an “absolute stupidity” ping.
It is threads like these that make so many FReepers appear to be or prove they really are uneducated liberals.
Few of them will even make an attempt to read your post.
You’d think some of the neighbors would wise up and upgrade their canine security, even if a doberman doesn’t fit their particular household situation. :)
Seriously, thank you for your posts. Threads like these tend to bring out the statists and the conservatives—you’d think FR would have more of the latter.