When the FBI Guys Come Knocking...

[Bill Stewart]

At 03:21 PM 09/26/2001 -0700, David Honig wrote:
>Not sociopath dogs, just guard-like dogs that would hassle an agent
>hanging out on your front bench.  A nice slobbery dog with a loud
>voice and some reasonable sense of territorial sovereignty.  Maybe
>some hostility to men in suits.

If you're looking for territoriality, alarm capability,
and something cops and crooks don't know how to work around or prepare for,
don't mess with dogs - go for geese :-)
The cops may bring dog biscuits with them to distract dogs,
but with geese, that's just a noisy feeding frenzy,
and if they didn't bring bribes, well, you can reason with dogs,
but geese don't fall for the "Nice doggy" alpha-crap...

Of course, this only works well out in the country,
though I had a suburban neighbor in New Jersey who had geese
for a while before deciding some of the neighbors might get
bothered by the noise, and in Tim's case there's a risk that the
psycho dog next door might decide they look like food,
but they're cheerful to have around and don't require the
constant time and attention and work a dog needs.