Why I like my wife to go jogging with my German Shepherd

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Note how the dog instantly sized up the situation, attacked, and then bounded back into the fight after being thrown across the room.

[i]Beloved German shepherd saves woman from sexual assault
By Christine Byers

IMPERIAL, MO. – Tonya Kendall said her beloved German shepherd, Gracie, can chew as many shoes as she wants it’s the least she can do to thank her four-legged companion for saving her from a sexual assault.

The mother of three was at her apartment in Imperial when she heard a knock about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.

“Who is it?” Kendall asked.

“Cable guy,” a man answered.

She knew her neighbors had cable problems just last week.

So she opened the door.

The man pushed his way in and knocked Kendall, 32, onto the stairs behind the door. He pulled her T-shirt up and began to wrestle with her jeans. A stench, like an auto body shop combined with body odor, emanated from his gray hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and dark stocking cap. He did nothing to cover his face.

He held his black-and-red gloved hand over her mouth. She could feel its dotted grips on her face.

[b]Suddenly, Kendall saw Gracie at the top of the stairs. The dog leapt at the attacker, landed on his left shoulder and bit him. The man stood up and threw the 50-pound pup like a rag doll across the living room, barely missing Kendall’s 11-month-old son, who was playing with toys.

The dog charged again, this time locking on the man’s right arm.[/b] He shook himself free and flung the dog across the room once more.

“That’s all right. I’ll be back to finish what I started,” he said, and slammed the door in the dog’s face.

Kendall locked the door, grabbed her baby, a baseball bat and a knife and huddled on the couch to call the police and her fiancé.

Then there was another knock.

Kendall jumped. He knew she had seen his face; was he going to kill her?

She exhaled when detectives with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department showed her their badges. She described her attacker to a sketch artist bushy eyebrows, light-colored buzz haircut under the cap, green or blue eyes, unshaven face, pointed chin. She vomited when she saw the drawing.

“It was him, in my house, all over again,” she said. “But I can’t completely fall apart. I’ve got three children. This man is not going to ruin my life. He’s not. I won’t let him.”

She tried to sleep Wednesday night but woke up convinced she could smell her attacker in her room. Her fiancé reassured her she was safe. And she found comfort when Gracie climbed in the bed.[/i]

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Dogs are just pure awesome. I do not get cat people.

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You don’t have to be one or the other. I like my cats too.

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Good article, my Boxer pup is incredibly protective of my wife as well. A couple things I would recommend would be showing their ID/badge through the peep hole, and yes they can be faked, but it’s a 1st step. 2nd thing I would recommend is for her to get a firearm and some training to go with it. The “great equalizer” is alot more effective than a knife and a bat.

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+1

My cats are cool, but my dogs would follow me to the gates of hell. How can you not admire the hell out of that?

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Loyalty…above all else. And the cool part is most dogs are not taught that.

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My Dalmatian is a pussy and would probably just stick her tail between legs and scamper off. Oh well, she’s good with the kids.

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If you locked yourself in the garage with the car running, your cats would call everyone of their friends, your family and buddies to come and laugh at your stupidity…the dog would go for help.

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A German Shepherd wouldn’t let this happen to his/hers owner like her Lab did. They’re also great with kids.

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Good to know that we can now carry in the parks—oh wait…:rolleyes:

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My wife always goes with our shepherd also. God help anyone that tries to harm that dog.

:smiley:

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Just think what these dogs could do to an attacker. I don’t think they can find their own supper dish…

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I cant even look at my wife cross or my dogs get mad

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Dogs are definitely it for me. My 2yr old English Bulldog is very protective of my kids. I can’t even rough house with them without him pulling me away. The best part about it is that I didn’t even teach him that behavior, he just knows to protect him.

S/F

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I posted this around Christmas on another forum.

My future wifey went nextdoor to give the neighbor’s kids their gifts this evening and was told a story by their mother. She is there by herself with the kids and her hubby is in afganistan so we look out for them as much as possible. Apparently one night a few days ago, she was taking the trash to the can on the cross alley behind our houses in downtown smithfield. She noticed rosco, the 125lb GSD barking at her as usual. But then his bark changed to the gutteral serious business bark. She said he the jumped the fence and came straight for her. She braced for the impending attack of rosco. He ran right by her. When she turned to look, scodog was chasing a man in a toboggan and a black hooded sweatshirt from 5 feet behind her. The man ran his ass off with rosco on his heels. When they reached the street, she said rosco stopped long enough for the trespasser to disappear and returned jogging right by her and climbing back into over the fence. She was scared as crap. She walked up to the fence of my back yard and rosco greeted her with his frisbee which she threw a few times. Realizing that the situation may have been serious, she snapped out of it, ran inside and locked the doors. Why she did not call the cops, I can’t say.

Sounds unbelievable right? That guy was 5 feet from her in the dark of night.

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Great post and beautiful dog, Rosco. Doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. I know that “I’m serious” bark well :slight_smile:

Here’s my boy. Note the serious look on his face. You can read GSD’s facial expressions like a book.

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I grew up with German Sheppard and his name was Shiloh. It was strange how he could read my emotions and then react. I used to take him hiking with me and he would obey every command with minimal training. he would never chase a squirrel unless i gave him the good to go command. He also never went out of sight. He once actually saved me from a potential dog attack. My neighbor had pit bulls and one got loose and started after me, Shiloh ran past me and attacked and actually killed the pit, but he was also severely injured and had to spend the night in the vet. I loved that dog like a member of the family and look froward to the day I have a son b/c he will be raised alongside a German Sheppard.

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Rosco - Great story. I love GSDs.

Anyone here have experience with Dobermans or Akitas?

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German sheperd dogs are very loyal and protective. My shepard would get between the granddaughter and the steps, he would not let her get near them. He also let me know when there were a few undesirables in the driveway when I was sleeping one night. Boy, were they surprised.

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That is a great story. Too bad it wasnt a Malinois though…a Mal would have still had the asshole in its mouth when the police arrived.