Robbed Again!

Robbed in December last year. Wife was upstairs, heard noise and disturbed someone who ran off with my laptop and cameras.

Some time last night: I haven't had time to recreate as I'm at work but looks like they used a screwdriver to unlock a sliding door to the garage. Took wife's wallet from jacket pocket (jacket worth about 100x contents of wallet) and then took my wife's engagement and wedding rings from the kitchen bench (don't ask).

Strangely left my wallet that contained couple of hundred in cash that was sitting right next to the rings!

I am left with a few options including turning my home into a fortress, so...


What type of dog should I get? Must be:

Kid friendly. We have a nearly three year old and another due in February.
Smallish. Only have about 50m2 of yard. House has some cat/small dog doors already which would be convenient.

I'm thinking a sausage dog just because I think they look cool/funny, but I hear they aren't kid friendly. Wife is in love with Beagles.

staffies are small, good with kids, and more intimidating to burglars than a beagle.

If your worried about dogs and kids, get yourself a goose, seriousily... they wont attack a small child and when they hear an intruder they go nuts..

no way you can sneak past a goose..

Get a mini foxy. Loads of character and very alert. Does'nt need alot of space and good ratters.
Won't eat your robber but WILL let you know if anything even comes close to you house.

I got a female red cattle dog when my boy was a year old, best dog ever was smart and loved everyone till they tried to get into our yard or car.
I also checked out the dogs she was breed from and got a good idea what her nature would be like
But they do need mobs of exercise, no prob for me as a shift worker so I could take her to the beach most days and belt a tennis ball till the wind came in. No good for yard protection if you're out exercising your dog I guess

Foxy is another great family dog that doesn't need a big yard
Same as Beagles but they'll show the a-wipes the way in

Oh, get a female, they wont hump ya kids legs or pee on everything

evlPanda said...


My grandma used to breed and race greyhounds, and I'd love one apart from the obvious drawbacks... thus a wippet also springs to mind, except I guess they make completely hopeless guard dogs. Pretty sure you can actually race them somewhere against other wippets.

Greyhounds and wippets are such good natured animals, they'd be crap guard dogs. It's an injustice to them that they have to be muzzled when out on the street. But you could keep all your valuables in a soft toy rabbit, and the thief would never run faster than the dog.

Sorry to hear about the loss. Having to buy another engagement ring without getting a new wife must be a bummer[}:)]

Matt1979 said...

If your worried about dogs and kids, get yourself a goose, seriousily... they wont attack a small child and when they hear an intruder they go nuts..

no way you can sneak past a goose..

Britain uses them to guard airforce bases.

Viscious little buggers

the dog that you want is a cross between a staffie and a blue heeler. My dog is great around kids, fairly small, but a robber wouldnt go near her in a million years. Great nature dog as well, and is a great sea traveller and car traveller.

Tell you what, sorry to hear about your loss bloke, but you should get an alarm system put in. Cheap as. Im a sparkie, and im willing to give you free labour to install one. You pay for everything else. PM me if ur keen. I live southside of brissy.

Any small yap dog should do.
Beware the heelers, i know of more people that have been bitten by that breed than the rest of the dog population put together.
We have a big rotti, his bark is definately bigger than his bite and is really good and protective with kids too.

Get a Rotty, they are the biggest sooks if you know them, but will make anyone unwelcome sh!t their pants. I had one that was airforce trained and she was extremely obedient, fierce, intimidating, and very loving. She even tolerated our cats, but loved to give our neighbours cats something to think about. My mum used to respond to alarm call-outs for her work, and one day she got sick of it and took the dog. Turns out two of her co-workers were having after hours 'meetings'.

GlenMorangie said...
My mum used to respond to alarm call-outs for her work, and one day she got sick of it and took the dog. Turns out two of her co-workers were having after hours 'meetings'.

Ok, I get it. Stop doing that... stop it I get what 'meeting's are. OK. got it. No really...