Brave puppy fends off intruders from family home invasion while his senior canine siblings stand watch: ‘I have never been more thankful for my puppy's giant bark’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Feb 18, 2025 3:00 PM EST

They say that the best things come in small packages, and judging by the hero of this story, we cannot help but agree. For in the darkest moment that this canine pack had been through, the tiniest pup of the lot was the one who stood up to the powers of evil and protected his family home. His siblings did their best to bark along with their brother, but something in this tiny tyke's spirit made it so that he would be the central hero of this story. His loyalty to his family extracting a fierce growl that far outsized the mouth it came from.

So the next time someone tells you they are going to adopt a doggo to have someone to watch their house. Remind them that it is loyalty and courage that determine a great defender and that size hardly matters. You want a doggo who is far outsized by his bark, such that one does not even get to the bite.

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    'My puppy prevented a break-in while the adult dogs guarded the doors.'
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    Disclaimer: This image is for illustration only, and the subjects are models; the image does not depict the actual subjects of the story.

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    I was staying up late in the living room to watch a live stream when out of nowhere, my 9 month old BMD started alert barking and ran towards the front door. He is my first giant
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    breed dog and he has a very deep, echoing bark that I rarely hear.
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    I heard my cam alert to movement outdoor and the other four dogs made their way from the main bedroom to the first floor.
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    Two stood at the patio door, one was at the garage door and the other was at the front door. These adult dogs
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    have alerted to unwelcome company before, but they only patrol the doors and growl. They don't act as
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  • Well, as it has been well documented through the medium of hilarious dog memes, some doggos are more about protecting their possibilities for cuddles, rather than protecting their family home. It dosen’t make them any less, it is just what their soul dictates. Not everyone was made for the guard dog life.

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    real deters and I don't expect them to be. My beagle is pretty old and he can only walk slowly.
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    My three basset hounds are so aloof that it takes a real big scare (or yummy treat) to get them awake.
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    I went back to watch the footage and there were two huge men in front of my house. As soon as
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    they heard my puppy's bark, they ran like the wind and got into their car. The moment the
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    beagle no longer smelled them at the door, he went to the bed and fell back asleep. With him relaxed,
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    the basset hounds laid down in the living room and dozed off. The puppy
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    was pretty riled up and was pacing the house, but with his older siblings sleeping, he soon settled and fell asleep in front of the patio door.
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    I have never been more thankful for my puppy's giant bark and my other 4 dogs' vigilance.
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  • Well, what an episode. It truly goes to show that you never know who will be the one to step up and have your back. And more so than that, that it is often the person (or in this case dog) that you least expect support from who will be there to back you up in your time of need. Just like this powerful pupper, who no one expected to step up and take control of the situation.

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    hibiki Sorry to hear that this even happened and glad everyone's okay. Hope the pups all got a nice treat afterwards :)
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    RattusRat... Gunther, American... I had a rescue American bulldog that at 90 lbs was a house pony. We
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    dropped him off with someone who had another American and a kid.
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    When we pulled in to pick him up, he was doing his big deep bark.
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    Then he recognized the car and smiled and started a high pitched whooping.
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    But yeah, a big deep bark is awesome. And I agree that dogs are great deterrents, but I'd never actually want them to defend me either. Big dogs are for being pillows.
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