I have three dogs, two are pets and one is a working dog but he is a big sweetie too!
I'm with you. Dogs over cats, any day. There's a reason dogs were one of the first species to be domesticated, and they've essentially been hand-picked over the decades, as they've been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, physical attributes, etc.
Yes indeed my two females are mostly inside dogs and guard my home, they do go out in the day but they are protective and territorial
They've been around us, as humans, for so long that they've kind of evolved to suit us as much as themselves, and have become attuned to our behaviors. They can eat starch-rich diets that other canid species couldn't, for example.
Yes my girls seem to be in tune with me. My male is a working livestock guardian dog and keeps livestock safe from predators
a guardian dog is usually enough to ward off some predators, and LGDs will confront predators by vocal intimidation, barking, and displaying very aggressive behavior. The dog may attack or fight with a predator if it is unable to drive away the predator. Livestock guardians may actively look for predators within protected territory to catch and destroy them, and there are known cases of dogs luring coyotes to a source of food in order to hunt them.
History.
The use of dogs in protecting livestock originated over 2000 years ago
like to thank all my dogs. The ones that are here, the ones that aren't here anymore because sometimes when a man's alone, that's all you got is your dog. And they've meant the world to me." The day of the 2009 Golden Globes show, he told Barbara Walters that "I sort of self-destructed and everything came out about 14 years ago or so ... the wife had left, the career was over, the money was not an ounce. The dogs were there