Do dogs really protect their family in times of danger?

Posted By wanglei on December 2022

Really will.

I have a one-and-a-half-year-old Alaskan called Yuan Bao, probably many people think that the three idiots will not protect the master, I started to think so, after all, my silly dog is very friendly to everyone, every stranger who came to touch it he was happy to wag his tail up to lick people's faces. Until I feel that it will indeed protect me, really feel it to the three silly family long face hahaha.
The first time I felt that Yuan Bao was clearly protective of me was in January 18, when I went to walk it at five in the morning and met a golden hair walking itself in the neighborhood. This golden hair is quite poor, I saw it several times when I came out to walk the dog in the early morning, each time there is no owner with it, its owner rarely take it personally to walk, are early in the morning to open the door to let it out to play.

My Yuanbao was excited to see the dog and ran up to play with the golden hair, because they had seen each other before, so the two dogs knew each other. I see no one near the dog leash let go, it two in the grass chase play, I took out my phone and began to video. As the winter at five o'clock in the morning, the sky is still dark, street lights are not very bright, I was half crouching to find light video, and then the golden hair was chased by my dog ran directly into my arms, sixty to seventy pounds of large dog strength is too much, then did not stand still on the buttocks sat on the ground the phone also fell, because too suddenly I was scared to scream. Then my dog directly flip face, rushed over to the golden hair overturned to the ground biting the golden hair face skin back and forth to throw. I rushed over to pull my dog away, because it wore a blast undershirt so I made a little effort to control (or adult Alaska strength I'm a six-foot girl really can not pull), it also refused to relent and roared at the golden hair teeth and tried to break free of my control and then up to fight. Then the golden hair scared pinch tail all the way home, in fact, it really is not intentional, that the golden hair is usually very friendly. Afterwards, I also bolted my dog up and went over to comfort the golden hair for half a day (and then made up with the golden hair, but every time the golden hair near me and my sister when Yuan Bao will be angry, will be bared teeth at the golden hair, so I never jerked off the little golden hair in front of Yuan Bao again. (Other than that they both can still play happily together.)

One time we had an appointment with the owner of a field dog to walk the dog. The place we often walk the dog is the wetland park next to the canal, and there are many hedgehogs in the grass at night. I went over to take a picture of the hedgehog, and when I got a little closer, the hedgehog turned his head and growled at me, which scared me, and then my dog rushed over and started to confront the hedgehog. Then I felt bad may have to fight, I was about to pull my dog's collar, who knew that the owner of the old black than my eyes and hands, a foot to the shrunken ball of hedgehog little poor kicked away, and then the old black immediately ran to find the hedgehog to go, the natural fight did not become. (Late night dog walk, the park was not fully open no one else, so the leash was untied. I was walking with my field dog owner when the two dogs ran into the woods to play so they picked up the hedgehog, not that we found the hedgehog first and then deliberately let the dogs bully him. (Don't worry, the little hedgehog was let go.)

Then last month, I found a part-time job at the cinema for the summer, and I couldn't get up in the morning, so I arranged a night shift from 5pm to 12pm, and my sister walked the dog later in the evening and picked me up from my workplace. The second is that my sister holds my dog and no one dares to come near it.

One night I left work about 12:30 p.m., my sister in the theater floor and so I, we both took the dog to buy a burrito with vegetables to sit on the curb thinking to eat and then go back, the dog is also tired of walking on the side of my feet. Just eating it intersection came a man, originally did not care, the results of the man stopped in front of my sister and I do not go, standing in front of us about five meters, my sister also feel not quite right elbow touched me to signal me to go. Just pack up the garbage and get up to go, the man took a few steps forward and mumbled something I didn't hear. The two of us are a little panicked, thinking that it will not be drunk or brain disease it. Then my dog jerked up and stared straight at the man, originally rolled on the back of the tail began to flatten out. Because the dog is standing on my left hand side, my sister sat on my right hand side, so the man saw the dog stood up, subconsciously go in the direction of my sister, the results directly to my dog pissed off, fierce to my sister in front of the past, I felt the hand leash suddenly tense especially tight. Then my dog began to bark at the man, the throat also issued a very low growl, the man was also scared (because the large dog voice is very low, sounding very aggressive and my dog or even woof with roar) so hurry up and go, my dog has been staring at him, he walked to the corner of the intersection behind me, my dog also went around behind me to keep an eye on him until he could not see to lift the alert.

Anyone who has had an Alaskan knows that most Alaskans are really a very quiet dog. My dog is one of the best mute dogs, and I can count on one hand the number of times he's barked voluntarily since he was a kid, and I usually teach him the "bark" command by teasing him with food before he opens his mouth. I play videos of other dogs howling and he won't follow. My sister and I moved into a new home almost two months before my neighbor asked me one day if I had a dog at home, because he went out and saw someone very similar to me walking a large dog.
For background, my sister and I still live in the old neighborhood when the security is not very good, belong to any vehicle anyone can freely enter and exit the kind. One night around ten o'clock, my dog was resting on the side of my bed, suddenly the head raised, ears listening, I did not care, may be the neighbors came back. Then my dog then stood up again and ran to the door, (to say, the district is a six-story building, my home in the third floor, and with the neighbors upstairs and downstairs are very familiar, so the general neighbors back my dog will listen, but will not run to the door. (Run to the door in the case of a delivery boy came, but my dog will not bark at people, will only wait at the door we come out to get delivery, because my sister and I often order take-out, so for the dog to run to the door behavior I know is the take-out to) but today is a bit strange, I thought I did not order take-out ah, asked my sister, my sister also said no take-out. Then we both heard a small movement at the door, and there was no expected knock on the door, so it was definitely not a delivery boy. We both looked at each other and went out of the bedroom to check, the door has been the sound of sibilance, because we two girls at home, do not dare to ask. We both stood still for a while not knowing what to do, and then my dog looked back at us and saw that we were slow to open the door, but also a bit at a loss. When I was hesitating whether I should pretend to be a boy yell a time. My dog roared out first than me, and then began to whimper, you guys make up your own brain when the dog protects food kind of warning low growl (mimicry: woof woof - woo woo ~ ~ woof woof). Then the sound outside stopped instantly, and then heard the footsteps coming downstairs. My sister and I again lying on the door to listen for a long time before putting down their hearts. Later a thought is quite funny, in case a thief pried open the door, and then found a hundred or eighty pounds of dog and he looked deep into the eyes hahaha.
After this incident I found that the dog is really smart, just observe our actions and expressions to determine whether it is a dangerous situation.
General process: the dog ran to the door - delivery boy knocked on the door - I came out of the bedroom - the dog quietly waiting - -takeout -close the door and eat.

The process at the time: the dog ran to the door - no one knocked - we came out to check - the dog waited quietly - -We hesitated in place and looked panicked - the dog saw through everything - and gave a warning to the stranger.

There was another time that I'm a little scared now that I think about it. At that time I lived with my parents and sister, one day I was home alone, two or three o'clock in the afternoon in the nap when I heard someone knocking on the door and woke up in a daze, just woke up and did not think so much directly on the door. Then a man at the door said that the property owner wanted to fill out a service questionnaire or something like that, generally the property owner will have the need to visit the door if the owners will be unified in the owners group in advance, but at that time, the brain was a bit not sober and did not ask. I opened the door to let him in, the man stood in the doorway to look inside suddenly did not enter, and said why not wait for the owners to return to fill out the form, I froze for a second or two after saying yes. He turned around and walked away, I just closed the door and heard the sound of two people coming down the stairs. I didn't think much about it and turned around to see my dog just waking up and sitting quietly behind me, I just wanted to pet its head and let it go back to sleep, and suddenly remembered why the man suddenly said not to come in, and just down the stairs when more than one person's footsteps, that I opened the door when in addition to the man standing in front of me there were others in places I couldn't see. What sent chills down my spine was that he took one look at me and said I was not the owner and knew there were others in my home and that the family happened to be away. That night, I told my parents about it, and they both got scared and scolded me for not having the brains to just open the door. Then the man never came back and asked us to fill out the form to prove that he was not a property owner at all. I was super grateful that my dog was sitting behind me that day, otherwise the man would have dared to break in. Although this is not his protection, but I also counted on the dog's power. The importance of having a large dog for girls who live alone hahaha

The most recent one was when our family took the dog out to play, the dog was in the trunk with, my dad drove the car to the gas station on the way, and the staff started to refuel. Then the dog in the trunk is particularly anxious, to the staff very unfriendly barking, I sat in the back row a little embarrassed, turned his head to pinch the dog's mouth, my dog is still humming in the throat, it is estimated to smell the smell of gasoline think there is danger.
The dog is really worried about the family ah