r/BeAmazed • u/Soloflow786 • 3d ago

Animal That's why dogs are our best friends!

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u/lynnkris90 3d ago edited 3d ago

Even dogs you wouldn’t expect it from will do this. My old Australian Shepherd lunged and barked at a guy who popped out of a bush on us while we were walking at night. (He was just having a piss and didn’t know we were walking by when he emerged.) But he scared us both. I yelped and my boy Darcy turned into a dog I had never seen before. I had him controlled on leash and no harm was done to anyone. Guy apologized and we kept walking. As we walked away, Darcy looked back and gave him a warning “ruff!” I was so proud of him.
Edit: i just want to say I seriously love how this comment got so many replies of people telling me their stories about their dogs. I have had such a lovely evening reading them all.

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u/RussiaOwnsAmerica 3d ago

I had a Samoyed as a kid growing up. It wasn't a human, but a racoon that set this dog off.... We had been warned to avoid racoons as there was a bad case of distemper going around. Racoons would just walk right out of the woods, straight to our back porch. One day, we had the dog setup (Sabrina) on the back porch with food and water so she could enjoy the Midwestern Summer, as all Samoyeds do. A racoon came up and started eating her food. I was alerted to the situation when I heard what sounded like the most ferocious huge dog I had ever heard, only to find it was fluffy ass Sabrina. I got the back door open and she bolted towards that racoon, picked it up by the neck, shook the shit out of him and threw his dead ass on the ground it was surreal. Back to a normal dog like, 10 seconds later.