You want a watch dog who will take down a trespasser or intruder, yet is easy going with non-strangers?
Look no further:
The English Mastiff male dog. He won't back down.
Posted on 03/02/2021 10:54:31 AM PST by NohSpinZone
Exactly. If someone wants a guard dog, get a breed that fits the purpose. For me, a feisty Chihuahua will do nicely. Better than an expensive security system, lol.
Highly recommend a GREAT Pyrenees.
Awake and barking at the slightest out of the ordinary. With hurricane window and doors, just walk by the house in the street, saying nothing and she knows. She knows who’s trouble in public.
Wrestling with her? Forget it. She had no idea how powerful her bite is and will tear into your arm if she gets carried away.
Sweet as can be. Takes food from you with her gentle grab.
But don’t provoke her, lean over her, corner her, or get hostile with either Sw, or MissSW...she’ll get it on you FAST.
TWO OF THESE will guard 300 acres and 250 head of sheep.
Incredible dogs
Smart as they come.
Just had surgery.
The instant Miss SW brought me home, she knew something was wrong. Immediately jumped on the bed beside me and put her nose under my hand. Stayed right there for days, back to me, guarding the door.
As I call her, my second favorite heartbeat.
Oh don’t I know it. Our husky will pretend to not hear us when we ask her to do anything. We know plainly that she’s listening. But throw a piece of cheese into that equation, she becomes the best-trained dog in the world!
My cousins have a rottie and he will roll over for belly rubs. from anyone.....I asked if he would take down a burglar and my cousin said yeah,touch his toys and you’ll pull back a bloody stump...
When I was a preschooler, my grandfather would take me next door to his neighbor's, who had a Great Pyrenees. I used to jump on his back and ride him around the background. Dog was very tolerant and gentle, and I had absolutely no fear to ride him.
My own dog, who I owned many years ago, was a toy fox terrier. She was a great watchdog. No one could pass the house without her high pitched alert bark. And she wasn't friendly to strangers, although at her size she probably couldn't do much damage.
Our 2 Siberians are exactly like that also!
My wife bought The Little Dog a jacket.
It was black and blue.
He went down to the pet store and traded it for a black leather jacket.
Now, he sits out by the neighbor’s fence, smoking cigarettes and singing do-wop songs to the white female poodle.
I think he’s a bad influence.
You want a watch dog who will take down a trespasser or intruder, yet is easy going with non-strangers?
Look no further:
The English Mastiff male dog. He won't back down.
Yeah, I would not want to mess with any mastiff, English or otherwise.
will drown the intruder in slobber- I have my ninja border collie -
🤣
In high school I had a friend who had a Great Pyrenees. Dandy loved every one, let the little ones ride on him like a horse, even play with his ears (something our Peke would never allow). Cats, however, were a different story. A cat foolish enough to get in his yard usually became a snack. Not much of a stray cat problem in that neighborhood.
The Turner and Hooch dog?!👍
We were on the couch watching TV when mentioned it.
I picked her up and put her over my shoulder, walked to the fridge to get a beer. Went back to the couch and set her back down to previous position.
The dog just followed right behind me.
She said; Umm, needs more training.
You fetch your own beer?? The dog must of thought you were a women :)
There’s a hilarious scene in the Disney “Goofy Man’s Best Friend” cartoon where his dog sleeps through a gun fight between the police and a burglar. It’s a fun cartoon on dog ownership.
You can mess with a German Mastiff aka Great Dane. Mostly big wusses although there is occasionally one that can get aggressive. Their size does deter most people from messing with them. Very sweet and empathetic dogs, but not guard dogs. Early in WW II the government tried to train some as war dogs. It was a complete failure. One trainer was totally undone when the Dane he was training to jump over things kept bringing the jump to him.
A neighbor has a husky-type dog. That pooch is the saddest animal in the world when being dragged around for a summer walk. But when we had a foot of snow recently she was thrilled to be alive bouncing through the snow. I can’t imagine her stuck in Thailand.
Smart dog knew it was a fake robbery.
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