Dogs as Protection
I’m not really a gun kind of person. My ex-husband had guns and they all left the house along with him. I’m not sure how much good one would have done us in an emergency anyway. I remember one night when we heard a sound outside and he got up, stumbling around in his underwear, spilling bullets from the cartridge all over the floor. If someone would have come into the house, he would have been down on the floor picking up the bullets.
I did get a stun gun a week or so back. It’s a full-contact model and legal here in Florida. I know that as a single woman (a single mom, no less) I need to be protected. Even though I am not a gun person, I AM a dog person. My dog Echo passed away in August and I’ve been thinking about getting another dog to bring into the home.
This time, though, I would consider a larger dog, perhaps one who knows how to guard. Echo was a great alert dog, but she would have been hopeless in a physical situation.
There are businesses like Command Control K-9 that specialize in obtaining and training protection dogs. This particular company sells breeds like German Shepherds, Dutch Shepherds, and Belgian Malinois that have been specifically trained to both protect your family and act as a companion dog at the same time. While I will probably never personally need one of their very top level dogs, the idea of having a pet that knows how to protect my home is appealing. I think good, well-trained protection dogs could be the absolute best deterrent to someone who would have otherwise picked your house for a home invasion. Home invasions are becoming more and more common in my area, so this kind of thing crosses my mind often.
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