--not my dogs, my employers dogs. Not at his home, at his office warehouse complex. I'm just telling ya what happened. He lost three guard dogs, all shot. Three different occasions. Big loud alarm goes off when they enter, after killing the dog. Alarm also notifies the security company, who dispatch someone, plus notify the local cops. burglars in and out before anyone gets there.
Here's the latest, out back of his shop is a ton of scrap equipment. They are four wheel driving over a hill from a "questionable" subdivision which is mostly crackheads, methheads, welfare bums, and so on. He has no control over that being there. They come in, cut the fence, load up steel, get out.
So, he has an excavator from one of his intown friends come over and dig this huge ditch...that lasted to keep them out one week, they walked over, grabbed enough scrap to make a BRIDGE over the ditch, got another load. He has caught them and they drove off, he gives the cops description of the truck, but couldn't get the license. most likely it is a fake license anyway, that is common, they just stick something on it when they go do a job. The cops think it is a multi state ring, but they haven't caught anyone yet, and no one in that questionable neighborhood knows or sees anything.
Around my house and this side of theis big farm, I'm the security. Dogs are alarms for me. I know their barks, when it is a normal just some fool in the street or something, I ignore it, anything "odd" they change tone dramatically, I go check it out, armed. That's how I caught that one sneak thief who drove in over the fields and was checking out..you guessed it..scrap. One of my dogs went nuts and was looking uphill towards the fields and airstrip, so we went and looked. Scrap thieves, everywhere. He whips out a knife starts waving it around "get the dogs away"! (I had the two that would actually chomp someone, the others I left behind) I told him that they were doing their job, he puts the knife away or gets blasted. That's it. Told him to get lost, never come back, or he gets blasted plus chewed.
Now I know some guys would say they would have shot him anyway, I ain't like that, and I live in the real world where hassles with the authorities involving dead dudes is not a sunday picnic, justified or not. I was content scaring the snot out of him. Now inside my house or hassling the old lady or attacking the dogs, etc..different story, yep, I'd shoot, and fast.
I personally don't have thousands of dollars for some elaborate security system and booby traps and ten more dogs and remote robotic gun sentries and all that noise. This is the best I got. Worked for me so far. There's a donkey with the cows to deal with coyotes when I ain't around. The dnr guys have hidden trail cams set up to catch poachers and weed growers in the more remote areas of the farm. I stay completely away from those areas. I don't even accidentally want to walk up on some big operation or surprise one of the armed poachers. Most of them boys are two time losers and face life on the third bust here, so they are trigger happy and it ain't worth the risk to me to go play junior rambow over some stupid reason like that, and I am always with my dogs anyway and I don't want any of my dogs hurt either, either shot or hurt in some lame booby trap.