Stupid Guest Tricks

Ladyfair wrote:Evidently, our so-called guard dog only guards the house when we're in it, or only against cats and the yard guy, or something like that.

As someone who made alot of money as a pre-teen pet-sitting I can tell ya, A LOT of dogs will guard the house only when you're in it. They think they're protecting YOU not the property. I've seen ginormus dogs that turn coward without the rest of the "pack" there to back them up.

Sorry your home got theived.

8^S

Mayonnaise wrote:I've seen ginormus dogs that turn coward without the rest of the "pack" there to back them up.

Those pooches need some lessons from my killer miniature schnauzer. 9.5 pounds of death to trespassers.

sounds like my watch cat.
if anyone breaks in and robs us, she will watch them.

My 30 lb. bruiser of a cat, Rocky, runs and hides under the bed if anyone under 4 feet tall enters the house. Chicken!

drcorey wrote:sounds like my watch cat.
if anyone breaks in and robs us, she will watch them.

A friend has a manx cat. One night someone climbed through an open window and the cat attacked them. My friend woke up to screams but thought he was having a nightmare until the cat came back through the window covered in blood. None of it belonged to the cat. :twisted: :twisted:

Let me tell you, watch cats are far worse than watchdogs anyday.

I have the scars to prove it.

All I was doing was a favor for the daytime fire dispatcher, go over to my apartment (right next door to the fire station) and get me this, well I did and I returned to the dispatch office with the item and one cat hanging on to my arm by it's teeth.

Hmmmm............. wondering if I should go find a mean cat? Our whole neighborhood has a herd of feral cats, maybe I should open a can of tuna and get one to come in right before I leave the house?

Couldn't look much worse afterward than it did the other day!

(BTW, did I mention that they even drank DH's beer and left the bottles in my daughter's beanbag chair? And left a muddy footprint on the freezer door where they had to get leverage to open the fridge?)

We were thinking a matched pair of Dobermans or German Shepherds to be company for my evidently non-watchdog houndpuppy, but maybe putting her in the same house as a wild cat might strike a spark, no?

I owned a Manx once. Very loyal, very territorial breed. My Cleo hated guys and kids. Whenever my brother or my nephew came anywhere near my bedroom, they got hissed at, growled at, and more than once my nephew got chased out and clawed. I was to have taken him with me when mom dragged me back East, but a test showed he had a heart problem that would've killed him had he gotten on a plane. When mom took him to the vet for what turned out to be the last time, they were checking him and found the problem; next thing they know, Cleo freaked out. For weeks realtors had been showing our house, and we had been packing, etc.. Mom said he bit the vet, tore up mom and the vet and vet tech, trashed the office, and in the process injured himself, including biting through his tongue. They had to euthanize him. I ended up taking Tripod with me. My other cat, Arnie, went to live with my brother but was rehomed when Arnie got destructive. Arnie could be a warrior cat, too--he originally belonged to my nephew, who named him after his then favorite actor--Arnold Schwartzenegger.

Ladyfair wrote: (BTW, did I mention that they even drank DH's beer

That's a hanging offense in my city..

Whichever kids/lowlifes in your neighborhood you think did it, probably did :mad: sounds like they were aware of your habits and comfortable that you wouldn't walk in on them.
Sorry that happened to you!