Sentences with phrase «farms as watch dogs»

As far back as the 18th century, they worked on canal barges village homes, and on farms as watch dogs.

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They have that urgent desire to vocalize their feelings and needs and in the cae of the Schnauzer, alerting their owner by barking has historically always been a task for Schnauzers who were bred as farm and watch dogs.

This breed was used originally on farms for stock control and as watch dogs and they were sometimes used as hunters for larger game animals.