Would your untrained family dog protect you or your family from an intruder?

[sinac84]

Mine will raise a lot of hell if they hear a mouse fart. And bad guys don't like a lot of noise because it draws attention to them.

 

[Aikibiker65]

Shoot man...that cat right there would crawl down a Greyhounds throat and rip him apart from the insides out.......certainly gave me enough scars

I grew up with a Maine Coon cat! She was big, mean and didn't care who you were or how big you might be. She hated every living thing within 5 miles of my house and scratched and bit her way to the most hated cat in the neighborhood. I really miss that cat!

 

[ch035]

85 lb lab and 45lb lab/ border collie. Lab barks loudly while the mix jumps at your throat. He is rescue and was obviously abused by a black woman as he hates them. He ran down a trespassing black girl a few years back, if I hadn't had the shock caller on 100% I would be paying her medical bills go this day. I built a fence the following weekend to keep people out. Not him in. It's been a year and a he is coming around to my daughter.

I came home in my sisters car one day and he rounded the corner hell bent on biting someone. I even saw the disappointed in his eyes when he realized it was me.

If I yell " who's here? Get em!" He runs around on the war path. I do it for fun sometimes.

 

[ch035]

Um, all I can say to you guys that are confident your dogs would step up and defend you and your family is, test the theory. Put someone in protective gear and let them play bad guy. You will probably be very disappointed.

The only members of your family that it would be normal for them to protect instinctively is themselves and the children....maybe. The aggressive behaviors that folks attribute to protective instincts are almost always motivated my other things than protection. Pack alerts, territorialism, self preservation. None of these are specific motivations to protect other pack members. The only pack members that wolves in the wild protect are the puppies of the pack. Everyone else is on their own if they come under attack outside the area immediately surrounding the heart of the denning area and that is not protective behavior. It's territorialism.

I agree here, do t think it's me they are protecting. This is there house they let me live in.

 

[cdb400]

Only if the intruder looks like a Frisbee!

 

[ch035]

Guys, the reality is that if a large dog is serious about causing damage to a human being, there is serious injury at the instant of contact. They don't mouth around a bit sounding vicious as they do when doing a correction to another pack member. That first contact is full force and is meant to cause maximum damage as quickly as possible.


Guys, you are actually UNDERESTIMATING your dogs. When a dog wants to screw someone up, it happens VERY fast. Your dogs were showing restraint because their motivation was not protective. When they are protective, the hit is no holds barred balls to the wall right away. I've taken thousands of bites like this and even wearing protective gear, it's IMPRESIVE and in most cases, painful.

Has anyone really been bit by a dog? I have been. Across my face. 20+ stiches and a scar to this day. I was petting him. It happened so fast there was no moving away. I punched him and he released. In half a second I was in an incredible amount of pain. I ran to my house and my mom took me to the er. His teeth went through my cheek. Not a good time. Had he chosen to continue or bit my neck I'm positive I'd be dead

 

[Stuckon22]

Has anyone really been bit by a dog? I have been. Across my face. 20+ stiches and a scar to this day. I was petting him. It happened so fast there was no moving away. I punched him and he released. In half a second I was in an incredible amount of pain. I ran to my house and my mom took me to the er. His teeth went through my cheek. Not a good time.

Take a look at the pics of my son in earlier part of the thread, he can relate to your experience.

 

[bearpugh]

all i want is a bark. i'll handle it from there.

 

[Stuckon22]

all i want is a bark. i'll handle it from there.

Your avatar is great!

 

[ch035]

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A repost I think but I like this