Dog agression story!!

Here is a similar story to cwards. I lived on a big ranch and we had a 6,000 sq ft barn where we kept tractors, hay equipment, tools, welders, etc. We also had a seperate horse barn with 10 horses and ran 500 cow/calf pairs. You could see the barns from the road (it was maybe 200 yards) but mostly open pasture between the barns & road.

I always kept my dogs penned during the day as I had help, feed/fertilizer salesmen, etc in and out. There was a cattle gap at the driveway with a gate you could close if needed.

After the work was done for the day and everyone left I would shut the gate and turn my old PJ dog loose. This was a yellow ringneck female that weighed about 70 lbs and was mean.....

Everyone around knew her. I could go to the cattle market with the 1 ton flatbed dually and leave her untied on the back of the flatbed all day and she wouldn't get off the truck.....but she wouldn't let anyone touch the truck either! She was serious too.

Anyway she ran loose at night (even though I used her on cows and hog hunted her some, she stayed around the house & barn at night). One night about 1 AM I heard her tear out of the yard running after something. She had caught one coyote that was killing chickens and had bayed a couple of hogs right in the yard over the years, so I figured I better go see. I got up and looked out the door and all I could see was a flashlight going wide open towards the road and could hear a person yelling. Then I heard a truck door slam and tires squealing as they took off. I went down and looked and they had parked behind some trees on the road and had cut my fence. Then they had gone to the barn loaded some tools on a new riding mower and were pushing it to the road to keep quiet. There were (2) 2" x 6" boards in the road where they had planned on pushing the mower up in the truck I guess........

The mower was out in the pasture, the dog had blood on her muzzle, so I called the cops. They came out and looked at everything and said these guys were pros as there had been about 2 dozen cases of them stealing mowers/tools just in the past month in my county.

Well, they didn't get my stuff!! I like a dog that will do things like that. I DON'T like a fear biter or goofy dog that you can't trust. I can hunt my dogs with anyone and they act fine. They are not going to walk up to you to be petted, but they aren't going to bite you either. They are mostly going to ignore you. But at my house, or in my truck they are very protective and will bite. But if you come to hunt and we are outside loading up gear and I turn a dog out of a pen its not going to bite you. They know you belong and we are going hunting. But if a stranger goes to the pens and lets a dog out most of my dogs would be all over the person.The dogs are just smart enough to know the difference.

And I have always said, give me a smart dog and you can teach it a lot of things.