dogs and there uses

[ready]

in order not to push the other dog thread off coarse.

do you have dogs and what real use are they to you and you effort to servive.......

i have a pair of very handy german shepherds..

they gaurd and hunt primeraly..............

[poppypiesdad]

I have Labrador's they would eat me out of house and home , bark at strangers and would make a great curry or stew , would kill me to do it , but at 32kgs each that's a lot of meat .

J

[lonewolf]

post SHTF there'll be plenty of FERAL dogs about, that's meat on the hoof(sorry...paw)

[jansman]

Waay back in the early 80's up 'til the mid 90's I kept a team of hunting dogs. Lurchers and terriers. There is NOTHING I did not hunt with them. Deer, foxes , rabbits, badgers (when still legal), hares and even feral cats. Trouble is, they are not an efficient way to aquire prey.
However, as guard dogs...

I had a mean collie lurcher who not only was a good hunter, but also a brilliant (and nasty) guard dog.
Moving on to now, we have our terrier. He is one yapper. A real 'radar', that hears people before they even knock the door. He is also very sensitive to smoke, better than a smoke alarm, I can tell you. Only need to get the frying pan out and he starts yapping and running 'twixt kitchen and alarm!
I think he is what Wesley Rawles calls a 'Force Multiplier'.