Sabby and the Lot Lizard

[2ndPyr]

(Lot Lizard = prostitute at a truck stop)

Well we had settled down for the night and were sleeping away in Mississippi, at a rat hole of a truck stop the other night. When BAM BAM BAM! on the side of our truck.

Sabby WAS sound asleep and this is a first for him, and he responded quite well. He barked, and scared that lot lizard away!
So now I'm awake and fuming for being woken up by someone having the audacity to bang on our truck. Sebastian is on full alert.

A while later, another one..well I was already up so I peeked over our window covering while Sabby was barking because if 'she' had been there I was ready to let Sebastian up to an open window and say, "You see this dog? All I have to do is open this door and there is no place you can run that he won't catch you."

Not necassary though (and I really would not let him run free she doesn't know that) the person was GONE, I saw her and yelled out the window to STAY away FROM THE TRUCK!

Well Sebastian was up for the night on guard. Slept all the next day.
I think he felt like he worked. And that's a good thing. :)

[Samsmom]

How funny. I bet the word will get around and you won't be bothered by any late night knocks any more. I sure wouldn't love to have a barking snarling Pry looking out at me. :eek: How cool that Sabby feels like he protected his family.

Chris

[fluffylove]

Nice! I hope it scared the daylights out of them! I'd sooner be woken to a dog's bark than to someone opening the door...I bet her felt good after that.

[jmanz6]

Leo protects us from Squirrels, low flying birds, and people walking by on the sidewalk too close to his grass. It does make him feel good to think he scared away an intruder. I bet Sabby will be on high alert from now on when you stop for the night. He has to keep his sheep safe so if it means he neglects some sleep, so be it. I think it's pretty funny that they didn't learn the first time to a Pyr "big boy bark". We call it a big boy bark because Leo still has his puppy whine when he wants to play or he just wants attention. When the big boy bark comes out, then he means business and whoever it's directed at better just keep on walking.

Our Newfie/GSD mix who passed away last November scared the UPS guy so much that he stopped coming up on our porch. Newman was a very large black dog who was also normally very quiet. We let him and our Lab have run of the house and they spent the day sleeping on the couch. Well, it seems that the UPS guy came up on the porch to deliver a package one day. Newman didn't hear him come up but was awake after he rang the doorbell. When I came home I found a nose print on the front window (about 2 feet from where the guy would have been standing on the porch) at eye level for a 6 ft tall man. Since it was dark in the house all the guy saw was teeth and open mouth at his head level. After that he would only toss the packages on the porch while still standing in the driveway. My wife figured out what happened when she was home one day and the FedEx guy had the same thing happen. She was in the kitchen and Newman went off. She looked out to see the FedEx guy RUNNING back to his truck! He was very protective of his home and of my wife. It sounds like Sabby is the same way which is a very good thing. Leo is getting there he just needs to learn what a real threat is and what a squirrel is...

[2ndPyr]

I love it! Big boy bark. LOL
Goodness there was this guy we met this past weekend in Gulfport and when he'd come by the truck he'd come by and say hi to Sebastian. But once he started howling (the guy not Sabby) at Sabby. It was a little annoying :rolleyes: and I was thinking, "dude HE's a Pyrenees he does not howl." LOL (yeah my bad attitude trying to come out). :rolleyes:
But Sebastian would bark at him, for some reason he just did not like this guy, and that's a first.

Kris

[jmanz6]

That's the great thing about dogs - they don't have to like anyone. There is no reason for a dog to be nice to someone they don't like. As humans we have to be polite to people we don't like but a dog can just decide he doesn't like someone for whatever reason and he doesn't need to be polite. Dog's have a pretty good sense obout people. They seem to be able to sense a bad person or a person with poor doggie manners. I figure if my dog doesn't like a person there must be a pretty good reason. Fortunately my dogs seem to love just about anyone.

[2ndPyr]

Our first Pyr, Belle was very much a people dog. She knew instinctively too, who were the 'dog peple' and who REALLY loved her. And of those people there were only two that she would as much as get up on her hind legs to greet them, gently of course, she had gentle down perfect. :)
She only stood like that when the person or the occasion called for it.....walks made her extremely happy...so that was one, and a person in love with dogs, as my friend Cindy is (she raises Collies).

Sebastian is socialized but I believe more closely bred as a guardian (like his mom and dad) so he is very aloof to other people outside his family. His gaze is not on people but the surrounding territory. He's not overly affectionate if at all to strangers (almost embarassing if one does not know that THAT is a Pyr). So people we'll meet walking will be all interested in this beautiful dog while he's ignoring them, and Belle used to lift her head and invite a scratch, or hug, she had many kisses on the top of her nose.

Now with us though, he's very goofy.

Kris