My four legged house alarm (Does Your Dog do a Good Job of Guarding Your Home?)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Does Your Dog do a Good Job of Guarding Your Home?
Date:	12/01/09 (35 review reads)
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Advantages: Protective & Loyal

Disadvantages: None

I love all dogs, of all shapes and sizes! I am one of the fortunate who are able to own a dog. I have two beautiful dogs who I adore and I would hope they adore me!

I own Bergen a 2 and a half year male doberman who is incredibly oversized but is the gentle giant of the canine world, literally. He has been the softest thing ever since I picked him up when he was just 7 weeks old. My other is Hugo, a dalmatian - yes two very different dogs I know! He was a rescue at 6 weeks old because he is deaf, which is not that hard to overcome with some patience.

Now dobermans have a natural instinct to guard, that is what they were originally bred for, to protect originally a tax collector! Raised correctly a doberman will be an incredibly loyal and protective friend who would no doubt protect their owner 10 times over.

Dalmatians were originally carriage dogs, training to run alongside carriages and horses. I have horses and Hugo has a natural instinct with horses which is great. Now being a deaf dog he obviously has trouble, which with patience and time you learn. H is an incredibly great dog he uses vibration to detect things, car alarms etc. He also watches people and other dogs to figure out whats going on.

I've noticed within the past year my dalmatian is getting more protective around the house, if someone knocks the door he is the first to bark not the doberman! Which you'd expect! However outside the home, by outside I mean the front lawn & drive, they are both quite calm and easy and anyone passing (it's a very quiet road) by are almost ignored by both of them!

I remember going to dog/ puppy training and the instructor actually said that you should encourage barking in your home when the postman comes or when someone knocks on the door. It gives the dog a boost and it also warns people that dogs are present in that home. Now I don't whether this is correct but I never needed to do this with either of my dogs. It just happened!

A dog will naturally guard, it's in their natural instinct to protect their pack which unless you are such an alfa male that they bow down to you, you are one of their pack and they service to protect. Regardless of breed, shape or size all dogs have the ability.

Summary: Natural instinct is all thats needed