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"Glad I put up my "No Solicition" sign last weekend.

I've got a BIG German Shepherd and my door is always open. :^)"

I have a true story you will like. Well, two of them.

A female friend of mine has another BIG German Shepherd. Burglars smashed her door in, only to see an extremely large Shepherd looking at them from the middle of the front hallway, licking its chops.

The would-be burglars fled. When the police arrived, the Shephered was still in the same place. It wouldn't let them in either. Nobody got in until the dog's owner got home.

Good dog.

My own dog story, though, is about my late Doberman. He was huge (his sire was ~150# and could hold a full-sized basketball in his mouth) and one day someone tried to break into the house next door while he was in the backyard. The wooden fence between the houses being too tall to leap, he clawed and bit at the fence and then smashed into it over and over again until he broke enough boards to get through it and then charged the burglar, who saw red death running at him and stopped trying to break into the house and ran like the wind to his car. As the burglar unlocked (he had, amazingly enough, LOCKED HIS CAR) and got into the car and slammed the door, he dropped his keys, which my Dobe then picked up in his mouth.

My wife, who was home ill, and several of the neighbor ladies had called the police when this started (my wife called me right after she called the police; I got the full story from my wife and two of the neighbor ladies). The police and I got there at the same time to find a very scared man inside his car, which was being circled by a very angry large Doberman, bleeding slightly from chest scrapes, who had a key chain in his mouth and who looked ready and willing to eat the guy it belonged to.

The police hauled the guy off, and I had to do a bunch of fence repair. My neighbor was amazed that my dog would protect her house as well and fed him steak for a week.

I was amazed that he could go through the fence like that.