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Mackerel said..
I got my 3 daughters bikes for Christmas. Some lowlife actually came into my backyard and wheeled the only adult size one out the side gate whilst we were gardening out the front. Wish the greyhound had been out there instead on with us, she's unusually aggressive with anyone unknown on our property.
About 2 months ago we woke up about 5:45am (daylight) to the dog going mental (greyhounds basically only bark if there is something really bothering them, otherwise completely silent, so when you hear her you jump outta bed!) and I went to the backdoor. I thought she has seen a rat and kind of egged her on whist I was walking down the hall and yelled "get the rat girl!". There was a bloke with a high vis vest on standing on my back porch - in my backyard. I grabbed the dog who was snarling and went to open the door to see what was happening as I thought he was a tradie at the wrong site.
As i opened the door I noticed he had a technical axe in one hand and a 12" screwdriver in the other, he was backing away being scared of the dog and I kinda said "wtf?" or something along those lines. He then turned an ran out my rear gates that he had opened up and jumped into a waiting car. I think he thought I was referring to him when I yelled "get the rat!" and then proceeded to march down the hallway revving the dog up.
Lucky that night the kids were on a sleep over as we had been to a party the previous night. Often my 9 year old will open the back door for the dog to go out being that she gets up so damn early.
Wonder what his plan was if we didn't have a scary dog and I didn't jump out of bed acting like a (unintentional) crazy man.
That's great! Dogs are awesome at picking up on unusual behavior.
I remember years ago my dad getting annoyed at the dog barking non-stop one night . Being lazy, instead of walking to the back yard he opened the front door, stood there and called out 'get out of that you bastard'. Some bloke who had been hiding behind a bush in the neighbours yard over the road gets up and sprints away.