Bark or bite?

What would your dog do during a burglary?
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[dtayfel]

Without training your dog to protect your house, this is like expecting your children to guard your house while you’re out

[RevolutionaryOneTV]

What do these people expect you want your dogs to be house pets and play with your kids but then act surprised when they don't do shit to a intruder.

[ladynightynightsuicidalgan]

I remember when someone tested my dog, but my dog gave the intruder his freakin chewtoy, it was my cat Trooper who attacked the intruder -.- like wth?

[SpeedCultureStudios]

Most of these tests are misleading. First of all, dogs don’t care about our personal possessions, so when an intruder comes in to rob us and we are not home, as long as the dog does not feel threatened, they aren’t going to do anything—unless trained.
Second, dogs feel emotion and react to it. A real intruder is going to be full of Adrenalin, anxiety, fear and nerves. This will cause a dog to react much differently than when some guy in a bite suit walks slowly in with no ill will or crazy intent. Dogs will just be curious—they can feel he means no harm so why would they bite?
Finally, our pets react to our emotions and our feelings. If they sense that we are afraid they can tell something is wrong and may feel the need to protect us. Especially if they are with a family member that they know is ranked lower in the “pack.” Our dog is very protective of our daughter when she is in bed, for example—even from us. He knows she is vulnerable and cannot protect herself as she sleeps so he makes sure no one bothers her. I can only imagine his reaction if someone broke into our home while he was alone with her and she was afraid. I don’t think anyone would be dumb enough to even try once they saw him sitting in the window waiting.
We need to see a true scenario with full emotions and adrenaline involved. No bite suits and cameras in empty homes. You’re crazy to think a yellow lab is going to just bite or attack someone that doesn’t even look human in a bite suit and comes in with no intention of harming anyone or anything. We need to give dogs more credit. They are much smarter than we think.

[averyvonniessen]

Our Italian Mastiffs were the best guard dogs we've ever had, especially our female. She saved us from a couple bad situations while walking home alone at night, and a few home invasions. It was natural instinct. But you absolutely need to properly train and socialize them, breeds like the cane corso, rottweiler, doberman, belgian malinois, etc. They're definitely not for inexperienced dog owners.

[kicknkm]

my dog wouldnt bark or bite...my dog would wag her tail and try to play with the perosn😂

[queenrejz]

On my way home, i met a very friendly dog that lives in a parking lot. He knows when I'm near and I always give him food. One night while I'm petting him, a group of guys are walking towards us, when suddenly the cute dog stand and became protective of me. He suddenly growls, the guys got scared and immediately distance themselves.

[HarderStylesKid]

What I’ve gathered from these burglar dog test videos is that if you want noise have atleast one small dog and if you want potential protection have atleast 1 big dog. But if you want actual protection get a big dog and get it trained to be a guard dog.

[reggiereubens]

Would love to see this with my dobermans 😂😂no chance

[yupitsjustme]

The guy is wearing a bite s a real threatuit and smells like dogs. I don't think these dogs felt a real threat. I have two, a 90 lb Lab/Husky with a big deep voice, and a 115 lb Great Pyrenees/Shepherd mix with an even deeper voice. I have had someone invade my home when i had fallen asleep on the couch. It went very badly... for the home invader. he took almost 60 stitches. Year later tackled someone who was trying to break into my garage and while struggling with him, the dogs latched onto him. The Great Pyrenees cross is quite formidable when it comes to protecting me.

[jaimieking]

My parents own a pure breed golden retriever that is generally very sweet but is all teeth baring, loud angry barks, arched back and hissed fur when strangers are standing outside the front door or outside the garden's walls. When they're outside he sounds and looks like he wants to maul them. However, once their inside the house/garden, he acts all loving and submissive. I think it's a territory issue more than anything because he will especially act like that in the garden, which is his turf. And while there is a few times where I was worried he was being way too agressive towards visitors, in some way I think it is good because he is very scary and angry when you first see him in that state and I bet he would deter a few robbers from breaking in.

[vastiwelsh]

I have 2 that bite. Someone made the mistake of climbing over my fence once, I was so proud of them.

[xwhomeverx]

Personally, I'd prefer my dog to run away scared than try to play with the attacker.

[MegaEscorpion]

Do this with a Rottweiler I wanna see what it will happen

[vickit]

Chop half the video to get to the action: 1:55

[Sally-sw]

All my dogs have always been protective .😊

[bobbillings]

I expect my dog to live a happy, healthy, long as possible life, full of love, I expect my alarm or my two brothers Smith & Wesson to cover everything else

[RebeLeigh]

Well when a german shepherd/dutch shepard runs away with tail tucked now im questioning my 2 boys lol

[znj]

My dog is really goofy but my cat almost blinded one mans eyes cuz he raised his voice at me

[kellipayne]

my GSD wouldn't hesitate to protect the family members because he's trained to do so. My lil guy would probably have a heart attack...lol