Due to the sociable nature of a well - adjusted Irish wolfhound this breed is not
recommended as a guard dog.
Not exact matches
We do
recommend that he goes to a single
dog home or to an owner that has experience with resource
guarding as he has shown signs of it when it comes to his food bowl and tasty smelling people food.
- Use multi-species stocking (i.e., sheep and cattle together)- Protect livestock in predator proof enclosures, especially at night - Utilize
guard dogs, donkeys, or llamas - Confine ewes & cows during lambing / calving & at night - Provide rabbit wire covered enclosures with fencing buried below ground; rabbit cages are not
recommended as they may be attacked through the cage or die of shock
as they frantically seek cover.
Shih Tzu
dogs are also full of life and highly alert, these features
recommending them
as good
guarding specimens, who like to bark, although they keep themselves quiet when inside the house.
For this reason, I don't
recommend them if you want a
guard dog,
as they are likely to greet an intruder with a wag of the tail rather than a menacing bark.