I have a doberman behind a 6 foot chain link fence. My immediate neighbors have German Shepards, a pit bull, and a Rottweiler. There’s a reason we don’t have cocker spaniels. As I’m typing this, my phone alerted me to burglary alarms going off a block away. 8 minutes before that, I was alerted to alarms going off at a gas station a block away. my wife was almost car jacked in our drive way. I woke up one morning to my truck jacked up and missing a tire and wheel. we have been vandalized twice. many of our neighbors have been robbed. A store owner was shot and killed during an armed robbery a block away not too long ago. There is a reason we have large vicious breeds. Oh, and a cop lives 3 houses down from me and his marked police car is parked in his driveway nightly. Again, there is a reason we have the dogs we do.
Have you considered moving? Just sayin’.
“I woke up one morning to my truck jacked up and missing a tire and wheel. we have been vandalized twice. many of our neighbors have been robbed. A store owner was shot and killed during an armed robbery a block away not too long ago”
Jeez. When the red flags are waving like that it’s time to take evasive action. There must be someplace else to live!
Do you live in Ferguson?
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.