Posts tagged "guard dog"

Picture this: a coupla chuckleheads bust into a bodega waving guns and demanding cash. As the frightened clerk moves to empty the till, an alert and angry guard dogs rushes the perps baring its teeth and barking ferociously. The burglars book it out of the joint empty-handed with the dog still in pursuit.

OK, now think about the guard dog you just pictured? A doberman? A rottweiler? Perhaps a German shepherd? Oh, you stereotyping fool, you. I bet you never thought this could be the work of a big, mean, fierce, nasty... chihuahua.

A potential case of breaking and entering this week was thwarted by one woman's barking and pretending.

According to the Associated Press, a woman in Athens, Georgia reportedly scared away an intruder from her home late Saturday night with some canid improv. Her antics included "scratching at the door and acting like a large dog," the AP reported.

Whether or not the woman actually did arf-arf her way to safety is unknown; the police report of the incident didn't specify barking as one of her tactics.