Guard Dogs

[kodis556]

Two words: German...Shepherds. 230 pounds of early warning system. And this is just them playing around:

 

[Bear44]

Yes...ordinarily...but my daughter had one of the biggest Danes I've ever seen and he wasn't scared of anything. When I stretched him out once in the yard and pulled him up by his forearms to make him vertical his paws stretched near 7 feet. I'm 6'2"..... he was huge... He'd just look at anything like a Dobie or whatever and act like, "so what."

That's a lot of food needed.

 

[Bear44]

Two words: German...Shepherds. 230 pounds of early warning system. And this is just them playing around:

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Again, lots of food needed.

My interest in that situation would not be to use as a weapon, but rather an alarm system. Small easy to feed works great for that.

 

[timbgtm]

So can the big ones, but who cares as long as they're making a lot of noise.

My schnauzer is better than any alarm system.

 

[kodis556]

Again, lots of food needed.

My interest in that situation would not be to use as a weapon, but rather an alarm system. Small easy to feed works great for that.

Very true, but boy do we sleep well at night!

 

[Inatree]

Rat terrier ! , Smart, trainable,and enough speed and agility to stay off the menu. Also very good at feeding themselves on rats and mice.

 

[Gunny Jake]

Trip wires attached to a flare gun

 

[rugerguy]

My German Shepherd hardly ever barks, She just sits and watches then she'll growl a little then she gets after it! She stalks them, before you know it, she's on their ass!!!

 

[wildbill1973z28]

I considered getting more protective dogs but then realized that would just be more mouths to feed. But still looking for a long range deterrent that didn't need me to constantly feed I came up with idea of bee hives. Maybe not right for everyone but a toppled beehive would give an almost instant repulsion to unwanted guests. A long rope, a hard pull then without wasting ammo the threat WANTS to leave immediately. And if never needed hives will be an additional food or trade source. It would take the threat quite a while to make another attempt.

Ginny foul best watchdog you could have

 

[Leveraction44]