Good dog.

[pishta]

We went to a birthday party 90 miles away for the day and somehow left the front door wide open. I think someone walked out thinking they were not the last out. Anyway, we get home 10 hours later to a wide open door and our little 15 lb rescue dog running out to greet us! WTH? We went in cautiously and found everything in place, nothing missing and our dog just wagging her tail happy to see us again. This dog goes ape **** when the mailman comes up but the mail was right inside the door? I think we have put her in the back so many times when she sees the mailman across the street that she saw him this time, she naturally went to the backyard and barked through the fence. Good dog!

 

[ocdart]

Hey, mailmen can get trained too!
The 2nd Rhodesian Ridgeback we had was so protective that he went nuts whenever he heard the mailbox open. He'd hit the front door with all he had trying to get to the mailman. Good thing the front door is solid mahogany. The mailman got to the point of being super-quiet when delivering mail. I think he got tired of almost having a coronary whenever he would delivery mail here and the dog would hit the door.
Word must have gone around at the post office because even though the letter carriers have changed over the years since we still don't hear them when they deliver mail.

 

[pishta]

ha, I can rattle the mail slot and she'll come running from anywhere in the house at full bark.

 

[69FBCuda]

Ha, she was most likely sleeping soundly. Our 67# Shar Pei is a mad man when we get home if he hears us. Sometime we hear him getting off our bed, that's when he comes down with his tail down and the "Oh ****" look! Pretty sure he sleeps while we're gone.

 

[famous bob]

Ha, she was most likely sleeping soundly. Our 67# Shar Pei is a mad man when we get home if he hears us. Sometime we hear him getting off our bed, that's when he comes down with his tail down and the "Oh ****" look! Pretty sure he sleeps while we're gone.

138 pound Rottweiler laying in the doorway.

 

[AJ/FormS]

I got two Heintz-57s that together might weigh about 138.
The 66 pounder snaps at flies, and otherwise is Gentlness Personified.
The slightly bigger one, a recent acquisition, after4 years of being on a short chain, at his previous home; I am in the process of training to be like the first.
After just two weeks, he is coming along nicely.
But
He is/was trying to be Alpha, and is/was having a hard time giving it up.
>We rarely lock our doors.Those wussy locks only keep the honest folks out. I don't keep anything of value in the house. Actually, I don't have anything of value,lol. Anything that would or could go missing, I would consider it one less thing to get rid of before I die.
> and no fence. But I am now, the town garbage collector, so I know what everyone else has in their yards and whether or not it belongs there, who's home when, and who's not, and I know all the kids by name......... and I take special interest in the trouble-makers. and
> in 34 years nothing that I know of, has ever disappeared, and a lotta kids have come and gone.
But I digress,
congrats to Pishta on training your most excellent guard-dog! Good dog indeed.