Wow sorry to hear what happened, but it sounds like the police have a strong lead....keep us updated....waiting like a dog on the porch waiting on the mail man.
Burglarized tonight
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I hate thieves. I am sorry 12pups this happened to you. But as you stated I hope this is a reminder to those who have been thinking of boosting their security to go ahead and do it. I am in the process of upgrading my security. I had a strange guy walking through my neighbor hood a couple weeks ago looking inside cars. I just brought out my dog and had her sit next to me and growl and bark a bit. The dude took off running. Definitely made me think he wasn't just admiring the car.
Reminds me how cool dogs are. They key in on "off" behavior. If you're acting nervous or defensive or anything other than friendly, they take a keen interest in you. Something ain't right, and they're warning everyone.
Someone once told me to watch my lab when she "alarm barked." Asked me, "Does she turn her head slightly to the side but keep her eyes focused on the person."
"Well, yeah -- she does, actually."
"She's trying to bark back over her shoulder, warn the people in behind her and in the house that she sees 'stranger danger.'"
Cool. Dogs are cool. The best part of ourselves often looks a lot like a dog: loyalty, allegiance, compassion, supportiveness. (Except let's not start eating our own puke).
Someone once told me to watch my lab when she "alarm barked." Asked me, "Does she turn her head slightly to the side but keep her eyes focused on the person."
"Well, yeah -- she does, actually."
"She's trying to bark back over her shoulder, warn the people in behind her and in the house that she sees 'stranger danger.'"
Cool. Dogs are cool. The best part of ourselves often looks a lot like a dog: loyalty, allegiance, compassion, supportiveness. (Except let's not start eating our own puke).
When I lived in my old house, different town, I came home one day to discover after entering my porch that the heavy wooden door to the house was open. A delinquent boy on our block confronted me that my dog, a yellow lab bitch, had bitten him. He showed me his hand. It had teeth marks on it.
So I put two and two together and said, "How could that have happened? My dog is a house dog. Let me tell you what happened, and you correct me if I'm wrong. You came to my house and entered the porch while I was gone. My dog was in the porch, wasn't she."
He nodded.
"And she got between you and the house door, didn't she."
He nodded slowly.
"And she was barking, sort of with her head over her shoulder, wasn't she."
Still nodding.
"She was telling anyone who might be upstairs or coming in the back that someone had entered the porch. So, no one home, so you decided to enter the house in spite of her barking. You went to turn the knob, didn't you. And that's when she bit you."
Nodded some more.
"She wasn't biting you so much as preventing you from entering. Now go home, before I call the cops and tell them you tried to break in while I was gone."
... I could see it all plain as day, even though I wasn't there when it happened.
So I put two and two together and said, "How could that have happened? My dog is a house dog. Let me tell you what happened, and you correct me if I'm wrong. You came to my house and entered the porch while I was gone. My dog was in the porch, wasn't she."
He nodded.
"And she got between you and the house door, didn't she."
He nodded slowly.
"And she was barking, sort of with her head over her shoulder, wasn't she."
Still nodding.
"She was telling anyone who might be upstairs or coming in the back that someone had entered the porch. So, no one home, so you decided to enter the house in spite of her barking. You went to turn the knob, didn't you. And that's when she bit you."
Nodded some more.
"She wasn't biting you so much as preventing you from entering. Now go home, before I call the cops and tell them you tried to break in while I was gone."
... I could see it all plain as day, even though I wasn't there when it happened.
Similar thing happened to my dad. He's been a welder all his life and right before he retired he bought some equipment he'd always wanted so he could do some creative work and help people in the community after he retired.
He didn't have the stuff for 2 months before someone backed a truck down the driveway during the night, while everyone was sleeping, and loaded up everything in his shop and took off. They cut the lock and took everything except for one of his welders, which was hardwired into the shed and was super heavy. Their dog, a small but ferocious terrier that is usually on the warpath to kill everything, never even got up to bark that night.
My dad hadn't told anybody except a few family members about his new equipment, before that, so we think someone let it slip to someone they thought my dad knew and trusted. They knew exactly what they were coming for, exactly when my dad got up for work, so exactly when to come, and came prepared with bolt cutters and everything. That happened about 7 years ago. Police never got any leads and we still have no idea who did it.
Luckily, insurance paid out and they ended up having to put an alarm system on the building. Growing up, we never locked our doors and never once had anything stolen from us. Thank goodness it hasn't happened since. Too bad no one can live that way anymore, though.
He didn't have the stuff for 2 months before someone backed a truck down the driveway during the night, while everyone was sleeping, and loaded up everything in his shop and took off. They cut the lock and took everything except for one of his welders, which was hardwired into the shed and was super heavy. Their dog, a small but ferocious terrier that is usually on the warpath to kill everything, never even got up to bark that night.
My dad hadn't told anybody except a few family members about his new equipment, before that, so we think someone let it slip to someone they thought my dad knew and trusted. They knew exactly what they were coming for, exactly when my dad got up for work, so exactly when to come, and came prepared with bolt cutters and everything. That happened about 7 years ago. Police never got any leads and we still have no idea who did it.
Luckily, insurance paid out and they ended up having to put an alarm system on the building. Growing up, we never locked our doors and never once had anything stolen from us. Thank goodness it hasn't happened since. Too bad no one can live that way anymore, though.
That sucks, hope they catch the perpetrators and recover your stuff. We were burgled once, the worst was the violated feeling, never got anything back :-(
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