Have you ever been burgled when the dog was home alone?

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And what happened?

Had a complete panic attack when I was out yesterday that I would come home and the house would be burgled and Chloe gone!

Unfortunately, the stinky mutt is still around!! haha but it did get me really panicked!

So, tell me your stories =] xxxx
 
A friend of mine was burgled when the dog was inside. It was a very aggressive guard dog (can't remember the name of the breed - not GSD, not rottweiller - the other common guard dog, slighter build!). They gave it meat with drugs in to make it sleep. They had burgled the house previously. The third time they came back and broke in when my friend was in! She rang the police while they were in the basement, and ran out of the back door. I can't remember what happened, its years ago.
 
My friend had a dog who was ferocious with visitors but went and hid under the bed when they actually got burled.

Re poisoned meat, I know a few police dog handlers used to train their dogs not to accept any sort of food from anyone but themselves, which presented problems when they went away on holiday :o but then one clever dick taught his dog to only eat from one bowl which he kept hidden away and gave to friends/kennels when he went abroad.
 
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Not a house break in but I did have an attempt made on my vehicle.

Was night fishing many years ago and we had parked up in a local car park and toddled off to the lakes. I had a canvas top landrover at the time and Id left my two collies in the back sleeping on their blankets.

It was pitch dark, about 2am and silent until I heard an almighty racket, raced back to the car park to find the dogs going nuts and some youth staggering off across the car park with blood running from his face.

It seems from the mess in the back of the landy that he had decided to get in through the canvas and have a rootle about not realising I had a couple of sleeping dogs in the back, one of which had obviously flown at him and caused quite a wound.

We did call the police and they informed the local A+E departments to be on the look out. Never heard anything though but I was so proud of my mutts that night.
 
Flamehead there have been a couple of press reports here of dogs being taken, but mostly biddable and sellable types, toy breeds mostly, poms, chis etc.

A family had a whole litter of pups lifted from their house, from the same sire as my two, too young to be taken from mum so I have to assume all died :(
 
our next door neighbour got burgled, they had tried ours but we had a nasty collie lol.

Our current dog would welcome them in, bark and then give them a cuddle.

Buying a GSD when i move out lol!....useless spaniels. :D
 
It wasnt my dog. But I was babysitting for a friend. She has a very nice expensive house, fancy cars, big iron gates. Well as I took over from my friends mum the gates were left open.
I parked my car outside next to the other cars. I sat watching the tv and the dog barked, I stuck my head outside and saw nothing, I kept the dogs in as the gates were open. They came back and left with the gates closing behind me. The next morning I got a call from my friend saying was my car ok and did I have anything in it. My car was fine. Turned out my friends husband left his car window smashed and had cash, laptop, sat Nav, etc stolen.
It was a bit scary to know that it happened outside and I didnt know what was going on.
Think they knew I had nothing in my car worth breaking in for, lol.
 
I once picked up a black lab that was running loose along the road. Reunited him with his owners via the police and it turned out that they had been burgled and the dog was taken too, then dumped 25 miles away when they found he was neutered and / or older than he appeared!
 
CaveCanem said:
That's no guarantee either, there was a GSD 'guard' dog stolen from a garden centre in a burglary last year, can't find the link!
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i know, but they are a little more scarier looking than a stinky spaniel!!


*disclaimer* i am not amuppet who would buy a GSD for a guard dog... i know they are mostly soft *****s when they want to be...:D i just happen to like the breed :)
 
Not sure what they would do if at home alone, but I know the burglars wouldn't stand a chance against my youngest Lab if i was at home, the he gets very upset if he thinks someone is threatening his mummy, even when my OH came home late one night the dog was going mad snarling and barking with hackles up until he saw who it was coming in but only does it when I am on my own at home, kind of sweet really, I know he must like me a little.
 
Lol, no way would anyone get near my house, my rotti sleeps on the landing and comes down the stairs like a tornado when someone looks through the glass in the door and would never accept food from a stranger, and the hairy lurcher and wirey pointer are actually alot worse than the rotti as in they would attack no question and would not take food either, and outside prowling the garden is my akita, again she would not take food she is not greedy at all.
I have know a few dogs being stolen in break in's one being a British bull dog.
 
I'm more worried about people breaking in especially to steal the dog rather than any of our possessions. :o She'd welcome them in with wagging tail and enthusiastic licks. She also doesn't bark, ever, so I'd have no idea what was going on.
 
we forgot to leave a key out for a joiner friend so he climbed in the window - and the cocker apparently bit him!! luckily he knew his name so he calmed down - but i was secretly pleased to find out that the cocker will defend the property :o
the lab and springer = needless to say - jsut tried to accost him for cuddles :rolleyes: but then they also know him which helped :)
the cocker will also escape if given half a chance and wont let things (cars/cyclists/lorrys - you name it) past the house along the road - literally stops them barking and wont let them get out/carry on etc - its rather embarrassing :o
 
I *think* Poppy would defend the house. She certainly makes a very good show of it when the postman comes! She's too tiny to do very much, but maybe she'd bite someone's ankles :o I do worry about being burgled and the animals hurt or stolen. The cats have a fair bit of sense to hide, but Poppy....she has no sense at all and she's convinced she's a Dobermann. Very sellable too, pretty, cute, well trained. She did escape one evening while we were out (I think I posted on here) but our lovely neighbours found her and took her in while we raced back from a friends.
 
We've has a couple of incidents:-

Late 1 night OH heard a noise from the back garden, he looked out & somebody was trying to break into the shed, so he let the dog out (a mix of wolf hound, deer hound & greyhound) who went after the intruder. The last he saw of him was the guy leaping over the fence with the dog attached to his arse.

Another time we were at work when somebody tried to kick the front door in (leaving a big foot print on the door) it was summer so the bedroom window was open. The dog jumped out of the window & attacked him from above! He then sat outside the house like a sentry,
unfortunately he paid a heavy price for his bravery as his front legs were never the same again.

We had another near miss with the car recently (see my post proud of my boy) with our other dog.

I work for the prison service & was recently talking to a prolific house breaker, I asked him about security he said that the only thing that would put him off is big dogs. He also said forget staffys, they're too small & wouldn't scare him.
 
I meant more, are you worried they would take your dog, rather than do they defend you - as Chloe would absolutely NOT defend me or the house!!!
 
flamehead said:
I meant more, are you worried they would take your dog, rather than do they defend you - as Chloe would absolutely NOT defend me or the house!!!
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Don't be so sure of that. Our old lab Barney was soft as they come but he looked after the house when we were out. My friend used to climb over our back fence and come to see us - he loved her dearly, but would NOT let her in when we were out! :)
 
Same as that, me and my friend used to play fight in the garden to try and see if my old girl D would do anything (stupid, I know!!!) and she used to sit and watch, then at the beach my mum's male friend picked me up to pretend to throw me in the see and she nearly had him!!!
 
I don't think anyone would break in, either to steal property or the dogs, as 2 GSDs do tend to put people off, and they make a lot of noise as soon as the front gate squeaks. Although they always welcome visitors once introduced I think Evie would defend me, not sure about Buffy now, she probably wouldn't see an intruder. When my daughter was a baby I had a bitch who was everybodies friend, but one day my sister in law was visiting and H started crying in her pram. SiL went to pick her up and I have never seen a dog move so fast, she didn't bark or growl but the look on her face quite clearly said "go ahead,make my day!". :p
 
flamehead said:
I meant more, are you worried they would take your dog, rather than do they defend you - as Chloe would absolutely NOT defend me or the house!!!
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Nope, you would be pretty stupid to try and nick a rotti go hell for leather at you or a shaggy lurcher or wirey pointer that is also trying their best to attack you, I have 2 very placid dogs in kennels but the akita is on the perimeter of them, so again you would have to be stupid to try:rolleyes: I maybe worry about the whippets being stolen but they have to get past the more ferocious beasts to get to them.
So no im not worried, but I would if I had no big beasties and only little ones that could not defend themselves.

I will leave the whipps in the boot with the rotti when I pop into a shop for 2 secs, I would never leave them without the rotti.
 
Not us personally, by my OH's parents farmhouse was broken into and they took all the jewellery and family heirlooms... of course, all insured for monetary loss but they were sadenned by the sentimental loss.

Worse thing was the two terriers were home alone, I wish they had run and hid / kept out of the way but they obviously didn't, luckily they weren't taken, but they had the living s*** kicked out of them during the process, poor beasties. THAT was the worst part about the whole situation, they both recovered but they are still extremely nervous about visitors when they arrive and are not so good to leave anymore (understandably). The older of the two hasn't been quite right in the head ever since. Utterly disgusting. I cannot even begin to imagine what it feels like to have one taken.
 
He he, ity makes me chuckle thinking of this one as many years ago, before I was born but we still had him when i was younger, my parents had this dog who I can only describe as an alsatian x wolf! He was the size of an Alsation but black and white with a big white ruff on his neck. They used to live in a rougher area of town before i was born and they said that every household in the neighbourhood was burgarled apart from theirs. They reckoned it was the window cleaner who checked out the houses but, they knew if the cleaner had been as the insides of the windows were grotty from the dogs who would just go mental and follow the cleaner and go mad inside the house jumping at all the windows the cleaner was doing.

he alos through himself through the stained glass door of the house when a health visitor came to see my mum after my sister was born. The dog imapled himself on the glass - think gave the health worker the shock of her life too! In his time he would go for postmen, dustmen, you name it he would have a go. my dad once resuced a binman who Bungo (that was our dog's name) had gone for, the binman had him pinned on the floor under a dustbin lid! lol, it's funny when you look back and this was in the days before dogs would be PTS for this behaviour. Surprisingly he never was aggressive to us as babies - he 'tolerated' us.

the funniest moment was when my dad let some irish guys do his drive - needless to say they did a ***** job. they came asking for money and threatening my dad. Whilst doing this Bungo was of course going mental at the patio door. all my dad said to the guy was if he didn't leave the premises he's let the dog out. Funnily the guy left and we never saw them again. However, a few weks later a symbol was carved into a tree on out drive. We later found out it was an irish symbol to sort of say to otgers to leave this house well alone! All well and good I say! lol. i still feel ourhouse is sort of marked as a no go area. all wehave now though is a GSD x and acollie x - still I think they do their job of 'pretending' to be vicious and, if you didn't know them i guess you wouldn't enter the house.

I love having dogs - miles better than any alarm!!! :-)
 
We had a couple of break ins when we lived in our first pub. They'd break into the flat and steal the night's take. After it happened a couple of times my da left the dogs loose with the run of the flat. They only made one attempt after that, and must have left pretty sharpish as they left their ladder :o

Oddly enough it was the springer X lab who was the best 'guard' dog. I say oddly because he was the softest, friendliest dog I've known. And rather dim. I wouldn't have even thought he could work out what was going on and whether it was necessary to try to protect somebody tbh :p But when a drunk decided to lean over the bar and grab my da by the neck he soon let go when he came face to face with the deeply unimpressed, snarly little brown dog who had just appeared from nowhere and planted both front paws on the bar. If the bloke hadn't let go sharpish the dog would likely have gone over the bar to make his point further.

Not too worried about Loki being stolen if we were burgled. He makes a horrendous noise if he thinks people are coming into the flat. It scared me when he first started doing it and he's MY lump :o. He doesn't sound like a dog that would stop to take food so I doubt anyone would try to be honest. If a stranger were to come in when we weren't around I honestly don't think he would take kindly to it. I'd be more worried about him biting the burglar and the burglar trying to press charges or something daft like that :(
 
A few years back we were at my sisters house for a party and had left the dog - Golden Retriever (she was probably about 3 years old) home alone. Left the alarm off so she could have the run of the house.

Came home at about 12pm to find my car no longer parked outside our house & the front door open, i was abit squiffy but soon sobered up and ran in the house in panic about the dog, she was nowhere to be seen, was the worst feeling in the world.

We ran up & down the road shouting her name and then heard a faint bark, our back garden at the time was 120ft long and she was at the furthest point hidden behind some planks of wood, can't even begin to tell you how relieved we were. Couldn't of cared less about the possessions they took out of the house or my car, but to see our faithful friend safe & well was the best thing.

We moved shortly after as we never felt safe in the house again and our dog is still alive & well, aged 11.....
 
My house was broken into last year, both my shibas were there, my neighbour disturbed him and he ran off with Jasmine chasing him up the road. Everytime i go to to work, im terrified that someone will break in and steal Isabel. I am having an ADT alarm fitted asap.
 
I was home with my dogs when someone smashed the kitchen window breaking in.
The dogs were safely in their room(an old pantry)
But my neighbor who was on his way home from work at the time went after the robbing sod.
My neighbor...was a very nice police dog hander who had just come off a quiet shift with his GSD.;) His GSD enjoyed his evening run as he was allowed off the lead in the field at the back of my house not so sure about the young lad he caught though!!!:eek::D

Dont think anyone would try breaking in now with the dogs i have now. The lurcher x staffie is definatly more switched on at night and I wouldnt totally trust her not to just have a go if I wasnt around? The colliex spaniel i know will guard me and the house and lord help anyone she got a hold of!! the 2 border collies-total wussies but will follow the girls anywhere so all of them rushing toward you could be intimidating! and the terrier shel defo have a go if your not me then you are fair game!
But im pretty sure no one would pinch them? maybe the 15 week old collie? but again you gotta get past the girls.
Best guard dog by far though *IMHO* get a couple of geese! the noise from them is enough to put anyone off!!:)
 
My Dobie makes a LOT of noise, and I think it would put off most people from trying to enter the house! She looks the part, hackles up the lot, but is the biggest softy ever! However, I dont think she'd do anything if someone did enter the house without us there?? But I do think she would protect me if she thought I was in trouble. Bless her :)
 
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