My Furry Footed Friend (Does Your Dog do a Good Job of Guarding Your Home?)

Member Name: StampedingTurtes

Product:	Does Your Dog do a Good Job of Guarding Your Home?
Date:	11/08/09 (23 review reads)
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Advantages: Furry and Fun

Disadvantages: Noisy

My dog does an excellent job of guarding our home...in theory. She barks the loudest, most fierce bark her little body will allow, she lets rip a deep rumbling growl from her chest and occasionally, she throws herself at door which the offending person is standing behind - quaking in their boots.

You may think my dog is an Alsatian perhaps? Or a bulldog? Maybe a Rottweiler or a Doberman? Something smaller maybe... a Staffie or a Rhodesian Ridgeback? Named Cain or Goliath or Colonel Jones?

My big brave grumbling growling guard dog is a Shetland Sheepdog - a Sheltie - named Bonnie. For those of you who are not sure what a Sheltie looks like, I will elaborate.

The Sheltie is a small dog with an elegant pointed muzzle. Dark almond shapes eyes, a pitch black nose and little broken topped ears, a constantly intelligent, quizzical expression upon her dainty face. My Sheltie has a beautiful sable mask across her eyes and muzzle with darker fur framing this across her head and ears. She has a brilliant white rough, apron and petticoats and the fur on her back is sable, chocolate brown and black. Her paws are about 3 inches long and white. She stands around a foot tall and she carries her tale in an elegant swoop. She is every inch a little lady. Think Lassie, only shrink her by half.

And this walking carpet, this furry piece of art, becomes all rumbling growls and scurrying feet when some innocent stranger knocks on the door. She barks and growls and howls until she is SURE that she has scared them off. Standing on the other side of the door must be a truly terrifying experience. What monster dog lives in that house?! What child eating beast are they going to unleash upon us?!

That is, until you actually open the door. When the door is out of the way my little hairy monster becomes a bouncy little bag of excited yips and joyful yelps. She greets anybody, friend, family, foe, post man, with the joyful abandon which we all love in dogs. She loves life and she LOVES people, new people, old people, children, people with intent to rob us of our belongings, Bonnie loves them all.

Sure she will protect her pack in theory, but when the door is open she greets everyone as a long lost and much loved friend. And that's exactly the way I love her.

Summary: The perfect guard dog