I still don’t like dogs, but Brandi proved her worth late one night (actually, early one morning) in January of 2011. Here is the blog I wrote back then:
We forgot to lock the front door last night. It was a bad
night to have been negligent. Good thing Brandi our Shih-tzu/Poodle Watch Puppy
was on duty.
In the wee hours of the morning, a prowler in our
neighbourhood broke into a home on our street, and stole cash and beer. He then
went on to other homes, including ours. We woke up to the sound of Brandi
barking her little puppy head off.
My husband, Derek, went to investigate. Our front door was
standing open, and a lone figure wearing a hoodie over his head was walking
down the street. Derek called the police.
It turned out that the police were already out looking for
this fellow. In Canada, it isn't so easy to elude police on foot in the
wintertime, since they can just follow the footprints in the snow.
Unfortunately, this subject was able to dodge the officers by cutting through a
busy gas station parking lot. Our phone call got them back on his trail, and
they quickly caught up with him.
Brandi is so friendly and loves to greet everyone who comes
to our door. I have often said that if a burglar ever got in she would lick him
to death. I am glad to be proved wrong. A burglar did come to our door and her
barking scared him away.
So I take back all of my “I don’t like dogs” rants. This one
can stay. I am still a cat person, and I love our two cats, but I rather doubt
if either of them would have scared away an intruder. They just sit on the
window ledge and groom themselves.
I have seen the human use this device to get out - how does one use this to open the door?
