To sack DDog and give him no treats again ever?!

[Ironytheoppositeofwrinkly]

So, we are the owners of a very large, very stupid, very scary looking Staffordshire Bull Terrier. He looks extremely intimidating, but is absolutely as soft as shite. Woke up this morning to discover we've been burgled, lots of high value stuff has been taken. Go into the kitchen to make a drink whilst waiting for police to arrive, and lo and behold, the dogs treat tin is empty. So not only did this stupid fucking dog not attack the burglars, nor alert us to their presence, the shitbag has sat and taken treats off of them as well!! The thieves probably had to shut the dog in the living room to stop him merrily trotting after them! AIBU to say that as much as we love the stupid oaf, that he is a piss-poor excuse for a dog and should be suitably ashamed of himself?!

I am sorry you've been burgled. I am glad no-one was hurt.

DDog may your treat tin runneth over x

That’s awful, horrible situation to wake up to.

Oh bless him, I can’t help but think he’s lovely. Sorry, I know that’s not what you want to hear 😂

Yup, DH got burgled before we got together. Has a big scary looking rottweiler..soft as muck mind but scary looking. Also used to bark like hell the second anyone came anywhere near the house. But that night, she seemed to for the first time in 4 years not give a damn. Great timing

Sounds like a lovely dog and it is a shame staffies get such a bad name. There's so many of them in rescue places because idiots buy them and can't look after tyhem.

Ironytheoppositeofwrinkly
justwingingit I was bought up with GSDs all my life. Never met a breed so prone to idiocy, absolutely amazing dogs though, and friendly to a fault, most of them!

I had a GS when my DC were little, and had a desperate time trying to train her not to be a ferocious guard dog :( She'd hurl herself against a plate glass window by the front door, I don't know how the whole pane of glass didn't explode outwards. When DD2 was 12 my sister left her alone in the house while she went to the shop, came home to find police cars in the lane - some man had rung the doorbell, pressed a dodgy-looking ID to the glass to try to persuade DD to let him in. She phoned the police, but they couldn't get in to get details because Alice (the GS) was hurling herself against the door and giving a good impression of a rabid dog.

I had problems with her as well when the children were smaller - when a visiting child cried she wouldn't allow the mother to approach the child to pick it up, just kept edging her away, 'protecting' the child :(

Ah...Alice. How I miss her.

My DIL's lab/retriever cross never left the end of the marital bed when they were burgled.

You need to ring Tom Hanks for assistance ASAP.

I’ve always said my staffy girl would lick a burglar to death! My beagle, however, is a bit nervy & has a bark of a dog 300 times his size. Got to love a staffy, but they will never be guard dogs. lol

What a daft doggy!

Serious point about the burglary... please do make sure you get an officer back soon to give you some beefy crime prevention advice and invest in secure window & door locks etc.

Unfortunately, friends of ours were burgled. Then, a few weeks later, they were burgled again, the burglars knew the lay of the land and the fact the family were likely to have replaced their stolen goods with the insurance payout. It was a devastating double whammy

My dog who would do exactly the same says he needs a big cuddle for the trauma! Bless him, he probably thought he'd made a friend. I love a staffy 😍

Even if you know your dog is gentle and wouldn’t hurt an intruder, it does seem strange that a burglar would choose a house with a staffy unless they also knew he was a softy.

We had similar recently. Our dog looks and sounds like a great guard dog. We were asleep in bed and someone was trying the front door, did our idiotic dog bark to scare them away? Did she fuck, she made simpering noises instead. It's only because I had the bedroom door open that I heard the door being tried and the pathetic noises the dog was making , tried to rush downstairs only because I have arthritis I stiffen up in bed so I was quite slow, got downstairs to see two figures walking away. And my idiot husband slept through it all, dog was very pleased I was up though 🙄

I'm quite sure mine would do the same! She's a Scottie, 7 years old and thinks she's a wolf or lion when confronted with other dogs, cats, squirrels etc. But she is so daft for humans!

She seems to think that anyone coming to the house is coming to visit her. She has the bin man wrapped around her paw; when she hears them coming a few streets over she sits by the gate and waits, he always makes a fuss and gives her a treat. Anyone who comes to the house, whether they're a gas man, bin man, electrician, someone for the washing machine, Avon, Jehovah's witnesses etc, is greeted as though they are her favourite person who has just been on a 6 month trip to Australia.

She's so loving and trusting. One day my mum was in the bath and dad had gone out, I was in work. Dad's friend, who lil had never met, come round to drop off some tomatoes he'd grown. Not only did Lilly not bark and let him in, but she also wagged her tail and jumped up on him until he fussed her! Proper spoilt. It's a good thing I guess - that she loves and trusts humans so much - but it is embarrassing when she point blank ignores you to go and see the bin man!

My tiny elderly ckcs once foiled a burglary by barking so much he scared the buggers away. He also woke the big scary dog next door who joined in.

Sorry it happened to you, it's a rubbish feeling

My dh was telling me how burglars now smack dogs over the head if they look vaguely intimidating, so I'm glad yours wasn't hurt. I'm sorry you were burgled, that's just horrible.

As a kid, our dog came upstairs to tell my dad burglars were downstairs. Dad just shoved him away thinking he was being annoying. Oops.

It could be worse. We lived in a pub, alarm was a big red bell in parents bedroom
Dad slept through the alarm, the burglary, mum getting up, the police arriving. Eventually he half woke up, hit the alarm clock and mumbled "5 more minutes"
He looked a bit confused to find a group of police and mum doing faces at him when he eventually woke up

Do you live in Downton Abbey or are you both just comatose really deep sleepers, @Irony?

My eyes spring open when a leaf blows in the wind three halfway across town. I don't know whether to feel pity or envy at the ability to sleep through burglars looting your house. 😵

My dog let someone one in, but blocked the door to stop him getting out. The bloke was too scared try and get past him and our neighbour caught the man climbing back over the fence

@Butchyrestingface me and my dad are the same, once we are asleep, we are asleep and that's it. Mum hates it, she said she spent her life checking me as a baby and dad

@Juells
Was Alice good with your DC? Yeah I've heard they can be very protective over small children/babies

@justwingingit10 we had a GSD my dad rescued as a puppy. Mum went batshit and pointed out I was only 4 and over her dead body. In the midst of this arguing, puppy snuck off and they found her asleep at the side of my bed. Puppy stayed

I was playfighting in the garden with my grandad and screamed, she jumped off a second floor balcony, landed on the concrete and broke her leg and dragged herself to me and bit my grandad. Recovered fine after vet treatment

She was PTS 23 years ago and my dads hand still goes over the arm of his chair as if to stroke her, he never had another dog after her

Bless him! My chihuhua would have barked like billy-o as he genuinely thinks he's 10 men lol

@Tinysarah1985

Well done DDog. That's what I call a citizen's arrest

I’m sorry, that sucks. I hope they catch the bastards.
I doubt my lazy dog would even wake up, so your dog at least greeted them. Soppy sod! He does sound adorable though.