Although my dog has never had any guard dog training, I would hope he would seriously protect me and my family if the time ever came. Fortunately, I've never had a situation for his assistance to be needed, but has any one had a time when their dog defended them in their time of need?
I hear it all the time that your dog will protect it's family, but sometimes you wrestle around and scream for help to see if the dog will come to the rescue and the dog just comes up and licks you or yawns and you start thinking, if this were a real situation that I needed help I would be really disappointed in you. hahaha
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Pretending fear is not fear and dogs know the difference. You cannot lie or pretend to a dog - your scent and body language gives you away.
Yes, my Akita who was a very social show dog, saved me from a rapist on parole. The man had stalked me to the park N ride that morning and was hiding in the isolated grain shed where I had to go to get my horse feed. Tsumi ripped through a 9 guage chain lnk fence when I didn't heed his barking and physically tackled me on the way to the shed - pulling and pushing me back towards the house. That's when I spotted the same car that had followed me that morning - and got furious. When I grabbed a pitchfork from leaning on the corral - at which point Tsumi went crashing through the window of the shed. A big man came running out followed by a very intense Akita driving him to his car and chased the car down the road to the corner, then Tsumi ran back to check on me. I was shaking pretty hard by then. The police did track down the man and he had a long history of violent assaults (he was sent back to jail) - so Tsumi got lots of praise.
I also placed 2 GSD/Aussie pups from a neighbor's litter.
The first "Puppers" went to a single mother with 3 young daughters that lived a few bloocks from a juvenile detention center. One night Puppers held 3 teens at bay who had broken the back door and were trying to enter. The police were there shortly - the teens were escaped teen murders. The police credited Puppers, just a friendly family mutt, with saving the family's lives.
At 12 yrs, another of the pups intercepted a bullet meant for his owner in an armed house breakin. The owner pulled a shotgun on the first younger burgular and was holding him for the police but there was a second older burgular that snuck up to shoot the owner in the back - except Buddy, the dog, attacked taking a bullet through the shoulder but knocking the second burgular to the ground saving his owner. A few days later, home from the vet in a cast, Buddy followed the burgulars' trail into the woods with the cops behind and uncovered a large stash from local break-ins that got the men convicted of 5 breakins.
Buddy had also broke into the bedrooms as a younger dog when their house was on fire and got the family out in time.
A dog does not need to be trained to attack or mean at all - these were all very social, friendly pets. But a protective breed will be there when you really need it - purebred or mix.
Now the Siberians - I have no idea what they would do. LOL
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I hear it all the time that your dog will protect it's family, but sometimes you wrestle around and scream for help to see if the dog will come to the rescue and the dog just comes up and licks you or yawns and you start thinking, if this were a real situation that I needed help I would be really disappointed in you. hahaha
Dog Breed in Relation to Dog Training
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Pretending fear is not fear and dogs know the difference. You cannot lie or pretend to a dog - your scent and body language gives you away.
Yes, my Akita who was a very social show dog, saved me from a rapist on parole. The man had stalked me to the park N ride that morning and was hiding in the isolated grain shed where I had to go to get my horse feed. Tsumi ripped through a 9 guage chain lnk fence when I didn't heed his barking and physically tackled me on the way to the shed - pulling and pushing me back towards the house. That's when I spotted the same car that had followed me that morning - and got furious. When I grabbed a pitchfork from leaning on the corral - at which point Tsumi went crashing through the window of the shed. A big man came running out followed by a very intense Akita driving him to his car and chased the car down the road to the corner, then Tsumi ran back to check on me. I was shaking pretty hard by then. The police did track down the man and he had a long history of violent assaults (he was sent back to jail) - so Tsumi got lots of praise.
I also placed 2 GSD/Aussie pups from a neighbor's litter.
The first "Puppers" went to a single mother with 3 young daughters that lived a few bloocks from a juvenile detention center. One night Puppers held 3 teens at bay who had broken the back door and were trying to enter. The police were there shortly - the teens were escaped teen murders. The police credited Puppers, just a friendly family mutt, with saving the family's lives.
At 12 yrs, another of the pups intercepted a bullet meant for his owner in an armed house breakin. The owner pulled a shotgun on the first younger burgular and was holding him for the police but there was a second older burgular that snuck up to shoot the owner in the back - except Buddy, the dog, attacked taking a bullet through the shoulder but knocking the second burgular to the ground saving his owner. A few days later, home from the vet in a cast, Buddy followed the burgulars' trail into the woods with the cops behind and uncovered a large stash from local break-ins that got the men convicted of 5 breakins.
Buddy had also broke into the bedrooms as a younger dog when their house was on fire and got the family out in time.
A dog does not need to be trained to attack or mean at all - these were all very social, friendly pets. But a protective breed will be there when you really need it - purebred or mix.
Now the Siberians - I have no idea what they would do. LOL
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- in my family folklore, my uncle still gets weepy when he recounts of how his dog tobie robie saved his life. the was young and drunk on a very cold night walking to my other uncle's house, he slipped and fell on ice hitting his head, knocking him out. he was hidden between two cars. little tobie robie barked and scratched on my other uncles door until he came out. then he let him to where my uncle was lying. fact or a yarn spun by two drunken irishmen, you decide.
- my dog alerted me to a fire that could have killed me and my family.
- Well, not particularly. I know one of my dogs, Scrapper, picked out of a group of visiting friends someone I didn`t particularly like, and growled, but loved on everyone else.
In addition, a dog I was caring for at the vet clinic in the boarding section snarled and barked at a repair guy who made me nervous by having vague answers of why he was there and me being the only person, 17 year old girl at the time) in that particular par to the building. The guy left quickly after his measurements of a cage. - Not mine, but my roommate's pit bull/rott/potluck mix dog did twice. Once I went outside after dark to bring all our dogs in. She and another were messing around in the back of the rather large, fenced yard we had. I called them in, she came running up, hair on her back raised, and she was growling and whining, then ran back to bark at the bush by the back fence. I started walking toward her to grab her collar and bodily drag her into the house (I was growing impatient, you see), and she ran up to me, barked at me, whined, looked back, growled, and walked toward the house, so I figured "hey, I'll take a hint", called the dogs in, and we all went inside.
I went upstairs, grabbed the shotgun, went back down onto the back steps, loaded the gun, and looked at the bush and said "I don't know who you are but you need to get your *** off my property or I'll blow it off." Somebody jumped the fence and ran down the alley and I about crapped my pants lol. I ran inside, locked the door, and kept that dog right by me all night lol.
The other time was when I was in the back yard moving some cinder blocks around. There was this really big, ugly spider. I screamed bloody murder and she came over whining and huffing, saw the spider, and barked at it. I'm arachnophobic, you see. This was a big deal to me lol - My friend was walking her pit and got into an argument with a girl that tried to punch her..Except the dog got to the girls throat before it happened..
- Since I dont own a personal protection dog that was specifically bred and trained for that precise purpose (and usually costs thousands of dollars)....NO. My dog has not, probably will not, and I dont expect or need him to, protect me.
If a dog snaps, barks, or jumps on someone during such a circumstance, its not protecting you...its acting out of fear, uncertainty, etc.... - Oh, yes. The first Newfoundland we had was nearly 150 lbs. Two men came up to the garage while I was cleaning it out and they would not leave me alone. Fortunately, I had left the connecting door to the den open and the dog lumbered out and simply stood next to me, looking at those guys. The one guy said "What the hell is that?" I said "That is the reason you will leave right now." It worked!
Little did they know what a Newfoundland's real personality is! - I have 3 dogs. None of them are the type to even bark when the doorbell rings. They will come up and sniff, and then go back to what they were doing. Sometimes if someone comes in, they show a bit of excitement. We always say the biggest, a bullmastiff gives everyone a full body wag. They don't jump or go crazy or anything BUT they are all extremely friendly.
Now, we also like to call my oldest dog who is around 13 or 14 the "judge of character". There are certain people, mostly men, that she will react to in a strange manner. She will stand in front of my kids and just give a look.
Also, my bullmastiff, acted funny on two accounts so far. First there was a solicitor at the door. The guy was extremely pushy and obviously making me agitated. I went to close the door and he put his hand in the way. The dog came from no where with this low growl that I had never heard before. Needless to say, the man left quickly. The second time was in the middle of the night. We live in an area where our backyard backs up to nothing. We often get random wild animals and such in or around our yard. There was something out there one night and they were barking. I went to check it out and her forcibly stood in my way and didn't let me out the door. Ordinarily, this isn't behavior that would be tolerated, but there was something odd about it and I decided to back off and go back inside and lock them all inside with me.
I've trained them to be nothing but friendly and non dominant BUT I think they have some sort of natural protective instinct that kicks in!
@Jasmer~ Mine actually squashes spiders for me. He runs after them and pounces on them. I'm like you...I don't like spiders...ever!
OMG! I have to add in here. Right after I typed that a HUGE centipede thingy came running across my floor. It had to be 5-6 inches long and it was WORSE than a spider. More legs=more gross. All three of my dogs jumped up and barked at it giving me time to jump up on the couch (like a big girl) and yell as I threw a book at it. - My instincts kick in so quick when it comes to my dogs that I don't even give them time to react. I've honestly never given any of them time to protect me and see if they ever would. My first two dogs I had were in the house when my boiler/hot water heater blew up in the basement and the house was filling up with carbon monoxide in the middle of the night. They may have reacted before it happened and we slept through it... who knows. We woke up and just got them out of the house. All I know is we woke up and the house was literally filling up with black smoke so we just got all the animals out without even thinking.
My dog I have now, a Boxer was out in the yard by himself one day. There is a neglected dog in the neighborhood, who has been reported numerous times to Animal Control and to the police who've done nothing about the dog. This dog jumps people's fences and attacks other people's dogs. My dog was in his yard one day, minding his own business and the dog came in his yard and came after him. They're both big, muscular dogs but my dog ran from the attack. I was out there about two seconds after the attack started and, again... did what I needed to do to protect my dog. I will always jump the second I need to in order to protect my dog just because the instinct kicks in and I don't wait for HIS instinct to kick in and protect me or to protect himself so I don't think I'll ever find out if my dogs will protect me. I think it's more our job to protect them than theirs to protect us. - I had a little German Shepherd mix that I saved from being put down she was about 12 years old.
One month later my stalker which I had had for 2 years decided to break in my house with a very large knife. As soon as be broke the window out and reached his hand in the GS clamped down on his hand and held him, me standing there with a gun until the cops got there 15 minutes later. Thank goodness for her. I had lived 2 years of hell because of the SOB, moved 3 times and all it took was a 40lb dog to put him in jail.
I always said I saved her and she returned the favor, she lived to be about 16 years old
