As you folks know, we’ve had a huge number of break-ins in our neighborhood over the holidays. I was recently sitting at my computer about 2 o’clock in the afternoon. (Most of the break-ins have occurred during the afternoon hours). Out of the corner of my eye I see a guy in a baseball cap and a dark jacket walk around the corner of the house. Both dogs start raising a lot of ruckus, so I am taking their signal seriously. I have front door opened with the screen door locked (for what little good that would be).

Our female German Shepherd is at the front door so I head out the backdoor with Wolfgang in full alert. We stand in the driveway; I look around and see no cars in sight. I am now taking the situation as a real home invasion situation. I yell HELLO! very loudly about 5 times with no response. I then give Wolfgang his word to handle the situation. He scans around for a very brief second, locks onto a position and heads out at full speed.

About that time, from around the corner comes one of the city water works folks. I yell DOWN! to Wolfgang and he hits the ground about 3 feet from the guy. Needless to say the guy stopped dead in his tracks and was white as a sheet.

Thanks Joe and Sidney, we were ‘keeping it real’ as you say and the outcome was a good one for all involved. I appreciate my dog’s abilities and am thankful for all the training. I’ll bet the city worker is, too!!!       –Gail