Guard dogs

[toolebox 1,384]

On 30/10/2018 at 19:35, Penda said:

Lets be honest in this day and age with all the new laws on dogs and stuff a lot of the time now they don't want dogs to bite the bye gone years when the police would take on any dog didn't matter if it was nasty they'd use it it's all history now it's all sniffer dogs and stuff people are training 

There's a few on here that would sniff some old boilers dirty knickers, if given half a chance, then spend the next 3 minutes stuffing 'em.lol

Edited April 13, 2023 by toolebox

[bird 9,587]

On 11/04/2023 at 12:13, steve t said:

Nowt fancy but will let no one in house. Labrador x German shepherd 

I've said before, that a farm I used go to when I worked old Bryn, they a simlar type x, it was black  coat bit thicker than a lab,   but size of shepard, big head on it, kept on chain in the day, loosedof at night. This big twat  would deff bite you, it had somebody before, who ever it was didn't hang about, blood all over place. You never poach is place, if he came out with that 80lb teeth  after you

[low plains drifter 9,459]

On 10/04/2023 at 21:11, Hannibal3 said:

I’ve got this boy to guard the house and the lurchers. If you don’t live in my house he wants to eat you. Taken him to a few trainers/decoys to see if he was the real deal or all bark and no bite . He passed every test they flung at him with flying colours. My missis uses him to help her train our young horses also, we’ll I say train it’s more she takes him everywhere with them when doing environmental work etc and it seems to calm the horse down when he is watching over them.

He looks well put together 

[Hannibal3 157]

On 13/04/2023 at 13:02, low plains drifter said:

He looks well put together 

He is mate. Will follow a horse all day out riding , runs and jumps like a lurcher. To be honest I’ve never seen or had a pure mastiff type that can do the things he can do physically. 

[Aussie Whip 3,822]

3 hours ago, Hannibal3 said:

He is mate. Will follow a horse all day out riding , runs and jumps like a lurcher. To be honest I’ve never seen or had a pure mastiff type that can do the things he can do physically. 

I used to own agile type guard dogs, mostly pit cross types, awesome canines as yours looks to be. As I've got older I've found them too demanding of time and exercise and these days prefer the lazier guard dogs that are happy to lay around and only spring into action when needed. I'll always admire the big athletic dogs though.

[bird 9,587]

11 hours ago, Aussie Whip said:

I used to own agile type guard dogs, mostly pit cross types, awesome canines as yours looks to be. As I've got older I've found them too demanding of time and exercise and these days prefer the lazier guard dogs that are happy to lay around and only spring into action when needed. I'll always admire the big athletic dogs though.

 wonder if , a Kangal  be any good as guard dog? . i know they good at there jobs , keeping bears , wolves away from the goats/ sheep. my mate got a Turkish  wife they go to turkey   few times a year to see her parents, my mate a lurcher lad , he knows dogs, and got good eye for any type animal. well he told me that on one trip out there , there went up the mountains , and   3 of them loose with the sheep, he said blood hell , they got some size to them, tall and very strong looking but not fat like some  the heavy type mastiffs . They work 2-3 kangals  as pack of wolves kill one kangal , but 4-6 wolves kill any dog , one to one kangal kill a wolf. when my mate seen them , they started to trot to his motor barking , he said dot know what they do he didnt want to find out haha  . i think they great in Oz , with there big open spaces, and be great to keep the dingo's down on sheep farms  out there deff , there fast and agile my mate said , put on e of them over your stags, you get great fox dog, and get few rabbits as well .

[Hannibal3 157]

18 hours ago, Aussie Whip said:

I used to own agile type guard dogs, mostly pit cross types, awesome canines as yours looks to be. As I've got older I've found them too demanding of time and exercise and these days prefer the lazier guard dogs that are happy to lay around and only spring into action when needed. I'll always admire the big athletic dogs though.

Yes you are right mate, they are hard work and I am starting to feel the same way. Putting in the miles day after day is hard work 

[jamie7344 237]

Presa canario

Edited April 15, 2023 by jamie7344
Wrong pic

[low plains drifter 9,459]

On 12/04/2023 at 22:36, toolebox said:

There's a few on here that would sniff some old boilers dirty knickers, if given half a chance, then spend the next 3 minutes stuffing 'em.lol

Mange tout Rodney 

Mange tout

[Aussie Whip 3,822]

9 hours ago, bird said:

 wonder if , a Kangal  be any good as guard dog? . i know they good at there jobs , keeping bears , wolves away from the goats/ sheep. my mate got a Turkish  wife they go to turkey   few times a year to see her parents, my mate a lurcher lad , he knows dogs, and got good eye for any type animal. well he told me that on one trip out there , there went up the mountains , and   3 of them loose with the sheep, he said blood hell , they got some size to them, tall and very strong looking but not fat like some  the heavy type mastiffs . They work 2-3 kangals  as pack of wolves kill one kangal , but 4-6 wolves kill any dog , one to one kangal kill a wolf. when my mate seen them , they started to trot to his motor barking , he said dot know what they do he didnt want to find out haha  . i think they great in Oz , with there big open spaces, and be great to keep the dingo's down on sheep farms  out there deff , there fast and agile my mate said , put on e of them over your stags, you get great fox dog, and get few rabbits as well .

There's a few over here as flock guards, I think they range out a fair way so you'd need a big property. Crossed with a big Oz staghound they would be huge dogs. Some staghounds are good guards and the cross would kill feral dogs/ dingo easy. I'd like to see one in action but not own one these days, lol.

[Aussie Whip 3,822]

3 hours ago, Hannibal3 said:

Yes you are right mate, they are hard work and I am starting to feel the same way. Putting in the miles day after day is hard work 

One dog I had, Bubba a pit/bullmastiff, not overly big at 35kg but he had hybrid vigor on a grand scale, lol. I used to have to walk him for km's every day, throw balls for him and let him swing on a tyre just to keep him happy. I got too old for him, lol as he died at 18. I was relieved in a way when he did but he never had a day sick and cost me nothing in vet bills. Pic of his last Christmas at 18.

[Aussie Whip 3,822]

He was the only dog I've owned that could crush weldmesh fencing with his jaws. Chainlink fences were nothing to him and he wrecked many dog runs, his own and others trying to get at bitches. He ended up toothless from this and shearing through big bones like butter. He wasn't an easy animal to keep, lol.

[mC HULL 10,409]

On 16/04/2023 at 02:45, Aussie Whip said:

He was the only dog I've owned that could crush weldmesh fencing with his jaws. Chainlink fences were nothing to him and he wrecked many dog runs, his own and others trying to get at bitches. He ended up toothless from this and shearing through big bones like butter. He wasn't an easy animal to keep, lol.

a guard dog is like a whippet very limited lol

[Aussie Whip 3,822]

2 hours ago, mC HULL said:

a guard dog is like a whippet very limited lol

But both have respect for the owner and come back, lol.

[mC HULL 10,409]

57 minutes ago, Aussie Whip said:

But both have respect for the owner and come back, lol.

belter lol