'She heard him go absolutely ballistic': Robber tries to break into the house, unaware of dog guarding the work-from-home wife, he barks and scares the robber away until the police arrive and husband returns home.

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Ayala Sorotsky • Writer and Editor
May 19, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

There are many stereotypes about certain dog breeds. For example: "Rottweilers are big and scary", "Chihuahuas are never nice to anyone", or "Corgis are potatoes that'll bite your ankles", etc. Every dog breed has a distinctive stereotype, whether it's ingrained in truth or not. But have you ever heard about a Labrador being a ferocious guard dog? We're pretty sure that's a new one. We were also surprised - but that's how this Labrador is, full of surprises. Labradors are mostly cutie patooties, and that's something that'll always be true, but this one Labrador named Wally showed a different side to him that even his pawrents didn't know about.

A human couple raises this sweet Labrador, the wife works from home while her husband works from the office. We imagine that working from home with a Labrador is mostly chill. Sure, the pawrent will take out the dog for a walk and play with him from time to time, but we think a day of working from home with a Labrador will mostly go by smoothly. So that's got to be very jarring when you're on a work call upstairs, and you hear your usually calm Labrador barking like a madman downstairs.

This is not a story about a dog going mad, it's a story about a dog being courageous. Apparently, the sweet Labrador Wally spotted a robber trying to break into the house. It's like a guard-dog instinct came about him, and the work-from-home wife was definitely alerted to the change in his demeanor. We don't even want to imagine what would happen if the hardworking hooman didn't have her trusty dog with her in the house. Some dogs are born to be guard dogs, but some dogs rise to the occasion.

The husband came home and told Wally's tale to a great round of online applause from the canine community. Some shared their own stories of their dogs saving their homes from robbery. We cannot get enough of this bold bravery. We love dogs so much. <3

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    r/labrador 9 hr. ago greatWrightshark My best boy prevented our house from being robbed.
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  • People usually think of Labradors as single-brain-cell creatures, like orange cats. Very lovely, extremely friendly, but not a lot going on between these flapping ears. But this story proves this theory as wrong at its core.

    When a Labrador such as this wholesome boy shows not only friendship, but bravery and guardianship, you know that they're capable of much more. This lovely Labrador deserves all the praise he got.

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    My wife and I live in a major city and she works from home 100% of the time while I go into the office every day. Wally splits his time while she works between sleeping in her office or staring out our front window. My wife
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    was on a call upstairs, while Wally was looking out the window and she heard him go absolutely ballistic. Barking, growling, etc. He occasionally barks when we get a package but it's usually pretty minor. A
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    few minutes later, the cops knock on our door. Apparently, someone robbed a couple other houses in the neighborhood and someone saw the robber pop the screen off our front window and tried to get in. Wally wasn't having it. Eventually the robber
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    ran off. I am so thankful for him and it makes me feel more at ease that he's around while I'm gone. Dogs really are the best.
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    Alpine_Exchange_36⚫ 9h ago Wally wasn't around, good pup 268 ◇ Reply OldnBorin ⚫ 8h ago Edited 6h ago My lab needs to take lessons from him. She'd help the robber load stuff into their getaway car lol Edit: really enjoying everyone's stories 125 Reply
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    mem0679 .7h ago I used to think the same thing, until one night around 2:00am she woke me up by snarling and growling...she hadn't growled a day in her life up to this point. When I got up to check it out, she stayed right in front of me, against my legs the whole time. I saw
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    some movement just beyond the reach of the light from the back porch light and realized that someone was in my backyard! I went back to my bedroom to get my phone and my and she stayed right against me, still barking and growling. Whoever it
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    was was gone by the time I got back to the door, but I have no doubt that if I had let her out, she was going to tear somebody up. +27 Reply
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    mem0679 8h ago But then again, she also let my friend's sister and her 3 kids, who she's never met, come in the house to get something when I wasn't home! Lol! Not only that, but she got on their golf cart and rode with them down to the lake
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    and played with the kids for a while! Friend's sister cleaned her up, brought her back home, and let all 3 kids give her a treat before they left! It was the best day of her life 21 21 ○ Reply
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    scabs_in_a_bucket ⚫ 5h ago I feel like dogs can smell emotions or something. They sometimes can just tell when someone means you harm 63 > Reply
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  • It's not that far-fetched to think that dogs are capable of understanding humans' intentions by merely smelling them. Dogs' sense of smell is unfathomable for us humans, we cannot even begin to comprehend the amount of information dogs get from smelling someone else - their stress-sweat, their happy-hormones, etc.

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    ComtesseCrumpet • 3m ago Same. My lab looks just like the sweet boy in the picture. When we first moved into this house my husband had to go out of town for work. It was just my son, my dogs and I at home. Around 10pm I heard someone messing with the front door
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    I peeked out a window and I could see a car at the end of our longish driveway. I also saw what looked like someone running down one side of my house. The dogs went bonkers on the front door doing their best impressions of snarling slavering hellhounds.
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    I heard someone yell, "There's dogs!" and everyone ran up the driveway, piled in the car and left. I called my husband and told him what happened. He called the sheriff whom he knows and who lives close by. He sent a deputy out and they found some kids parked nearby in a car who admitted they thought the house was still empty and they wanted to party in the house. They were sent home.
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    My dogs didn't save me from burglars but they saved me from partying teenagers. For that, I'm grateful, lol!
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    orangecouch101 · 7h ago We thought our Lab would be lackadaisical like this as well until the time my partner returned home late at night after being. away for a month. She alerted when she heard the taxi in the driveway and started to growl when the back door opened.
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    Then, she parked herself outside the bedroom door and barked ferociously until my partner called out her name from the bottom of the stairs. She made it very clear that no intruder was going to get past her to me. 16 Reply
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    norcalfxdb 9h ago Buy him a steak. 508 Reply Unfair-Equipment6 • 8h ago Surely Two steaks! 105 Reply
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    Itchy_Coyote_6380 • 9h ago What a good boi! Wally the super hero! 110 110 Reply
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    Like_old-fords • 9h ago I had a yellow lab named Macy. If I was home, she hardly even bother to check out the door if somebody came and knocked. I figured she was just mellow and didn't care. My wife eventually informed me that if I wasn't home and somebody knocked on the door she went at the door like a pitbull, snarling, and slobbering all over the place. My
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    wife felt very secure when I wasn't home because of that dog. I had no idea. I guess she figured it was her job to patrol and protect the house if I wasn't home. 58 > Reply
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    Biochemicalcricket ⚫ 6h ago You both took shifts. That's a good pup you had. 18 Reply
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    Rickjm • 8h ago Dogs are the best. Glad everyone is ok!
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    The heffalump pictured above may have very well saved my partner's life on an early morning walk when (what we can only assume was) a mentally unwell man started walking toward them with a drawn. Willie is generally friendly toward all humans, but he knew this man meant to do them harm and went absolutely ballistic. The man ran off.
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    To be sure, Willie's reaction could've escalated the situation and made things worse, but I choose to believe he saved a life that day. Dogs are the best 27 ○ Reply
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    greatWrightshark OP • 5h ago Good boy, Willie! 86♡ ◇ Reply
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