How's Your Watch Dog?

gaddylovesdogs · May 21, 2005

Colby and Tippy are very good guard dogs. Nothing misses them. Colby is more weary of people when they first enter than Tippy is. Tippy will sniff them and then let them pet her, but Colby needs a few minutes to warm up to them. Only with people that she doesn't know very well, though. If it's a relative, she's all over them. May absolutely stinks as a guard dog. The only time she even barks is if she's annoyed, sleeping, or the occasional play bark. That's all. In the eight or so years we have her, she's probably only growled about five times. She'd invite anyone and everyone in for a cup of tea, including "bad guys".

oriondw · May 21, 2005

gaddylovesdogs said:

BigDog2191 said:

There is a big difference between a Guard dog and Watch dog.

BigDog2191 · May 21, 2005

He was tied up at the time so all he could do was bark.

He's a GSD too, smart one. GSD's are guard dogs.

I hope your dog doesn't go up and tear up someone they don't recognize to shreds. It would suck for that to happen to a family member had they been visiting.

oriondw · May 21, 2005

BigDog2191 said:

lol.

Im sorry i have no other response

BigDog2191 · May 21, 2005

Funny, huh?

Debi · May 21, 2005

Addie will bark if she is indoors and someone knocks...outside, she'd never bark at a person. She alerts me to the squirrels or deer...lol Hammie is the watch dog...throws out his 'big man bark' that he reserves for people he doesn't know. If someone knocks and they are both inside...it must sound like a pack of mad dogs. If Ham is outside and barks...I look, cause he'd never waste his time barking at squirrels and such. Ham's bark sounds so deep and BIG that once some strange man trying to sell something (very rare around here) got out of his car....heard the bark....walked backwards to his car again. I yelled out the door asking what he wanted.......he changed his mind on giving me a sales pitch.

lol Nobody would get close without Ham giving the word.....so guess being the watch dog is his job. One thing I love is that neither of them would bother barking at a car going by on the road....I would hate that.

Debi · May 21, 2005

Hey BigDog....I was a bit clueless on that......what the heck was funny?? Oh well, oriondw's comment flew over my head. LOL Rocky will always be a fabulous watch dog!!!!!!!!!

oriondw · May 21, 2005

BigDog2191 said:

How old is rocky?

Stanna · May 21, 2005

Oh please, stop taunting bigdog. Yours is the best. yours is the meanest. We all bow down to the uber protective instincts of your dog. No need to pick on a kid and his puppy.

Rose's Gal · May 21, 2005

Well, Rose is a very good watchdog. She is very wary of people, so she'll bark at someone who pulls up into our driveway, etc. She won't have anything to do with strangers. The gas man came over one time to fill up our gas tank and Blackie ran right up to him to get a dog treat, but Rose stayed far back and just barked. He threw her a treat, but she didn't even look at it.

Blackie is a good watchdog and guard dog. He barks when something is out of the ordinary and that is it. He would defend us if we needed it too. He is fine with people we except, but if we don't welcome them in, watch out. lol

oriondw · May 21, 2005

Stanna said:

And you need mental help.

I dont see anything wrong with asking how old Rocky is. Is there?

I also didnt say anything about my dog being best of the best.

Maybe I cant read/write good enough for you? Please point out where in this thread have I meantioned things you describe? I actually take offense at some things you say. I have never said my dog is the meanest, and he is certainly not mean.

And what does "uber" mean?

BigDog2191 · May 21, 2005

Stanna said:

I'm taunting?

We all bow down to the uber protective instincts of you dog? Uh-huh. Right, I'm taunting. Nice try, though.

I'm not picking on anyone... but seems like you are.

Anyway, rocky is almost 17 weeks.

uber means super.

oriondw · May 21, 2005

BigDog2191 said:

Thanks.

Thats about the age when my guy was starting to get protective

Renee750il · May 21, 2005

BigDog2191 said:

I don't think that was meant for your, DoggyDaddy. The point was to stop taunting you, not for you to stop taunting. You weren't taunting anyone.

Debi · May 21, 2005

Big...LOL, like Renee said..it wasn't YOU! guess oriondw didn't realize we were obviously reading the responses wrong...I know I was. thought maybe someone got up on the wrong side of the bed today....but oriondw corrects me. Good.

bonster · May 21, 2005

Bonnie can see a long long way and I often get warned if there are other hikers or fishermen when we hike around our local moutainside lake - even if they are "miles" away or I can't even immediately see them!

Inside property and cars Bonnie is a great watcher/guardian, and warns of anything out of the ordinary.

She made me laugh just yesterday, outside my Dad's house some workmen had left a generator on a trailer outside in the road for something... it hadn't been there the previous night when she'd last seen that place... and when I opened the door to take her for a walk WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF "that shouldn't be there!!!" luckily she'll cease on the command "thank you" - passers by must have thought she was crazy!

Another recent funny was during a long night drive on deserted roads - at a red stop sign a motorcycle drew up alongside "her" window in the car, first vehicle we'd seen for ages and probably the closest she's ever been to a motorcycle. She was not happy at the rude interruption on our quiet night journey - seeing a big biker with a full face helmet inches from the window on a noisy "metal horse" - and let rip until told "thank you"!! well at least the biker thought it was funny! and of course the light took ages to change!

poeluvr · May 21, 2005

i have a question for elinhunter. is huter the brown dog in ur pic, what type of dog is he?

Rose's Gal · May 21, 2005

bonster said:

LOL I can just picture that. Sounds like something Rose would do....

I'm glad the Biker dude didn't find it offensive! lol

smkie · May 21, 2005

Know who's gaurd dog is the best..it is one that can stay beside a baby and growl so quietly...so very quietly to just alert u to the stranger and strange dog walking down the street..knows enough...has enough sense to not even wake the baby..but is on watch. Now u got a dog better then that u let me know..she also barreled a dog half her age and just as big that was he11 bent on destroying Victor tied to the porch..this dog barreled into that lab and pushed her clean out of the yard and back into the street while i got there to call her off..she always always calls off..drop it like a hot potato...that cannot be taught..that is my dog.. that is all love, honor, sense of duty..that is pack behavior.. i didn't need to have someone scary walk down the street..pleeeeez give a dog some credit. Mother Mary RULES!!!!!! So did Bronki. Having a dog that doesn't attack is 10 times more important then having one that does..If i needed him to, i wouldn't have even had to ask, but he could hand;e a thousand people a weekend at city market and even with their untrained, uncooth, ill mannered dogs attached. Victor is now learning from Mary.

gaddylovesdogs · May 21, 2005

Tippy stands in the backyard right before going to bed to check out everything and make sure everything is OK.

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.....And your point is?......

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