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**pE71J5Sw** · 01-10-2012, 03:03 AM

Good pup! Sandi is useless as a guard dog, people can drive up to the house & she won't bat an eyelid even as they walk up to the door, but if we are asleep or, so I've been told, not at home she will react noisily to people coming close to the property. She has woken me a couple of times baying & barking in full hackle mode and I've seen a car crawling past. She alerted the neighbour to an intruder awhile back too, some kid casing the house from the garden, the dog shot outside & went ballistic so she came out to see what all the fuss was about.
I reckon they can pick up on people's tenseness, movement, footfall & possibly even their vibe. The vast majority of people they meet have obvious intentions and I'm sure somebody thinking of a potentially risky criminal activity & being stealthy will be in a different physical state & the dogs recognise this.
Same with other dogs, 99% of the time no dramas, just doggy hellos & the usual hierarchy antics but now & again with no apparent trigger it will be all on with a strange dog. Probably the dog equivalent of a hard case thug.....

01-10-2012, 03:03 AM	#5
pE71J5Sw Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 433 Senior Member	Good pup! Sandi is useless as a guard dog, people can drive up to the house & she won't bat an eyelid even as they walk up to the door, but if we are asleep or, so I've been told, not at home she will react noisily to people coming close to the property. She has woken me a couple of times baying & barking in full hackle mode and I've seen a car crawling past. She alerted the neighbour to an intruder awhile back too, some kid casing the house from the garden, the dog shot outside & went ballistic so she came out to see what all the fuss was about. I reckon they can pick up on people's tenseness, movement, footfall & possibly even their vibe. The vast majority of people they meet have obvious intentions and I'm sure somebody thinking of a potentially risky criminal activity & being stealthy will be in a different physical state & the dogs recognise this. Same with other dogs, 99% of the time no dramas, just doggy hellos & the usual hierarchy antics but now & again with no apparent trigger it will be all on with a strange dog. Probably the dog equivalent of a hard case thug.....
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