What an exciting time Angus and I had last night! Everything was peaceful, up until 10:00 pm. Angus went out around 9:00 pm to go potty and of course didn't want to come in. It was about 1° C, so I let him stay out and enjoy the cool weather. He likes to curl up next to the back of the house and you can barely see him in the dark. I was quietly watching American Idol and working on my computer inside and he was sleeping in the backyard, everything was normal. Then, out of no where, around 10:00 pm I heard vicious (maybe not really, really vicious.... ok just bad attitude) barking from the backyard! Angus has a bunch of different barks and this one I do not hear very often. I immediately jumped up and ran out the backyard, where Angus was super upset about something, then I seen two young fellas (maybe 15 to 18 age range) running up my driveway and across the street. I though maybe they were cutting through the driveway and Angus gave them a scare, that is when an older man came running down the road and right towards my backyard. He was looking for the two guys who he said went throughmy yard (he ran around the building next door). I told him what direction the guys went and he took off before I could find out what they done, abviously it wasn't something good! One thing is for sure, they never seen Angus when they jumped the fence into the backyard, and they were lucky he was sleeping (newfs don't wake up from sleeping and spring in to action, it is sort of a slow motion stretch and lesuirely get up). My estimate is the guys got halfway across my yard before Angus was alerted and up and running!! I can only imagine the fright those guys got when they noticed Angus in full run and bad attitude barking! I bet they didn't even touch the fence on the way out of the yard!! Who says Newfs are not guard dogs!!! I feel more safe against intruders (though it has never been a problem in my area) then I ever have. What a security system I have in place, 135 lbs (and still growing) of black fur and fury!! Angus was on guard at all the windows, doors and backyard for 2 hours after that. Needless to say, my big boy got late night treats and even some roast I stole from the fridge. It is strange, we have kids jump our fence to pet him down and people coming up to all sides of our fence to meet Angus all the time, and he doesn't make a sound, he loves everyone, but last night he knew something was up, jumped into action, and his instincts were right! I guess my backyard as a gettaway route is now taken of the list!!
