We sleep on the second floor and our bedroom fronts the street. The window was open, and when a fight broke out down on the sidewalk at 2:30 am the noise their cussing and swearing woke us up. I looked outside and there were five people on the sidewalk arguing and fighting about a drug deal gone wrong, a girl and four guys. I called out from my window, "Shall I call the police? Is everything okay?" and they ignored me. So I called again, "I'm going to call the police if you don't leave!" Again they ignored me. I had just started dialling 911, when, from downstairs I heard Jethro roaring out of his crate heading for the front door. Matt had let him out of his crate and then opened the front door, which sent Jethro barking full force onto our gated front porch, about 15 - 20' from the druggies.

Within seconds they were gone, a couple ran off on foot, the other three jumped in their car and drove off.

Jethro responded to being called off, although he was pretty excited and needed to go back and double check that everyone was gone. It was an awesome display of the power of this dog.

Later, he was settled on the floor, his eyes were a little perky, but his body was at rest. We put him back to bed in his crate and all was quiet in the house.

Why I love my dog soooo much. He is amazing. Its too bad he can't act on his guarding drive more frequently, but we just don't live in that much danger.

In Canada, it is probably much less likely for the drug dealers to have guns.

Here, in a situation like that, if I have some consideration time, I might decide to threaten to let out the dog, rather than do it. That is, if the druggies perceived a threat to themselves from the dog, I wouldn't want one of them to decide that pulling a gun was a good idea.

Or even better, I could train and then command the bark warning that often comes up on this board, but keep the dog inside. JMO, though!

And believe me, I am not detracting one iota from the satisfaction I too would derive from this! Not at all. Not one bit!

 Quote: Jenny Arntzen

.... Its too bad he can't act .... more frequently, but we just don't live in that much danger.

That IS a shame.

(JK)

GOOD BOY!!!!

I remember once when I was on vacation and I took Toni and Cat out to go potty at the motel. It was like 2 am (bar close time) and some guy pulled up to the curb close to us. As he got out of his car, Toni and Cat moved so that they were between us. He got one syllable out that sounded like "hey" and Toni and Cat started barking and snarling... on a loose leash. He got back in the car and drove off.

I love my dogs, too

--Kel

That's what that dog was bred to do, to protect. I bet he got all lit up listening to the anger in the voices.
Not a bad thing to get a reputation for owning a "bad dog" if you live in an urban area.

too bad there isn't a "bad dog" page somewhere akin to the NRA's page about law abiding citizens defending themselves with a firearm. How many B and Es or worse were stopped just by having a dog? can't really figure the stats on that.

My friend once found a hand drawn map of her neighbourhood in the alley behind her house. She noticed some of the houses had X's marking them and then realized her house had an X. She figured out that the map indicated the houses that had dogs and probably were X'd off for potential break-in. She had a big rottie.

I need to buy my way onto that list.

I wonder if Dennis's sig pic, enlarged and framed in one of my front windows .....