Sometimes the best defense is a big old
dog who's loyal
hi friends welcome to today's lesson
here at active self-protection I am your
host every day of the week John Korea
and I am your co-host on Saturday ask
CEO and for science analyst Stephanie
Weidner today's video is out of Oklahoma
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have some inside surveillance from a
very nice home see the guy walk by the
pool there or the hot tub or whatever
and then in just a moment he's going to
kind of look around in this nice
neighborhood and he is going to decide
to enter an open back door when he does
enter that open back door this giant
great dane is going to come and meet him
and think oh is this a new friend who
has Cheetos for me and our guy is going
to be like oh look at this very nice
puppy I gotta put my plastic bag full of
stuff that I'm the anti-santa for uh on
my other shoulder so that I can sit here
and give pets to this very nice puppy
now unbeknownst to our robber this dog
is not home alone own actually his owner
is in this home as well she's not an
elderly lady but she's not a young woman
as well so now he's going to start
walking through the house wondering what
goodies he's going to find and what he's
going to find here in just a second is
that the owner is going to finally see
him and she is going to respond with
great moral outrage and when she starts
screaming and hollering that kind of
changes the demeanor of Fido who then
starts barking and biting and jumping up
and kind of grabbing at the collar of
this guy who you know is not about that
life and he is going to run off our
Defender does lock the door did call the
cops they did end up arresting this guy
and no one was harmed do you think the
goodest boy got a stake I hope he did he
deserved one he better have got a steak
sick about lessons you know it's an
interesting dilemma here Steph that I
know people who live in very nice
neighborhoods one of the things they
like about their nice neighborhood is
that it's relatively low crime however I
still think it's smart to keep your
exterior doors locked on your home when
there are people inside it I don't know
about when there's not people inside it
like okay they can bust in a window or
whatever but when there are people in
the home I lock my doors and I recommend
everyone do as well you know people are
incredibly valuable and they're
irreplaceable so you should do what it
takes to protect them particularly if
you live in a bigger nicer home it's
easy to be in one section of your house
and not realize what might be going on
in another section of your house the way
our home is laid out it's exactly like
that so all the exterior doors are
locked because it would just be too easy
for someone to get in there without any
of us even realizing it so it keeping
them locked just provides that extra
layer of security gives you more time if
nothing else to react to threats I also
think one of the things I see here is I
love surveillance equipment I love
having cameras that that help us pay
attention to the world but recognize
that the cameras don't keep us safe it
is not security as much as its
surveillance and a valuable thing if
that surveillance is valuable but only
in that it helps you see things better
now of course I think one of the big
lessons here is this woman has one of
the largest dog breeds around a Great
Dane and even that guy because he's a
good family pet is not a snarling
vicious attack dog don't expect your dog
to defend you against strangers
especially when a lot of times when you
open the door and there's a stranger
around you tell the dog to calm down and
you can tell by this gentleman's
demeanor when he walked in John used the
word gentleman Loosely he wasn't
concerned about finding a dog on the
other side of the door at all he didn't
exhibit any body language that it was a
problem in fact he was ready to be
friends and I would venture to say this
is not the first home he has broken into
and so he's quite used to seeing dogs
and that this is a typical reaction so
you may have have the one dog that is
able to deter and deter and chase this
guy out but more than likely this guy's
mannerisms tells me most dogs don't and
you just need to realize that they're
not going to protect your home even if
they do start barking and everything
else no one's going to do much because
dogs bark sometimes so just don't count
on your dog to protect your home yeah
and that's not generally what we have
dogs for anyways right and if you do
have a protection dog trust me you know
that you have a protection dog and you
probably paid a hundred thousand dollars
to have that dog bred and trained
adequately to do there not a family pet
like this and and again you know I know
some people like well that's that's my
dog is that way I probably bet you
otherwise almost certainly and I
wouldn't count on it now this lady's in
the home and she decides eventually when
this guy is like oh okay I'm gonna go
see what else is going on in the house
that she sees him and then responds here
of course with really nothing more than
moral outrage and and stuff I think that
this was a ridiculously dangerous uh
response that she had and I really think
either Retreat to a safe room Retreat to
a place where you have a firearm stage
this is why particularly I think women
particularly elderly people in homes
need to have defensive tools like
Firearms not necessarily because you
need to shoot this guy but to keep
distance from him and have the ability
to defend yourself if he got violent we
talk about this on the channel a lot
knowing about whether you're a high
responder or low responder what you
might do when you face a threat and
clearly this woman is a high responder
that is going to lean into that fight
um side of her brain when she's under
threat the problem is she's completely
outgunned here even without a gun in the
equation and she puts herself in a
really dangerous position if this guide
wanted to it would have been pretty
simple to take care of her and probably
the dog and do whatever he needed to do
in the house so I agree I think she
would have been far better served if
there was a back door or something or
another room or a way she could she
could leave the area would have been
better because she is just heading right
towards him and I'm not sure what her
plan is well clearly I mean she wouldn't
have been able to overwhelm him or
anything like that she was no match for
him physically now thankfully he sees
that the dog is getting a little
aggressive decides that he doesn't want
to be a chew toy and leaves but man that
was all just luck I do think she did a
good job here at the end in law locking
the door okay fine but what was our
first lesson today had her back door
been locked to begin with then none of
this is anything other than her calling
the cops and reporting a Prowler in her
yard and and so let's learn those
lessons I think having a safe room in
your home incredibly wise having dogs
that at least get loud when they see
something that they don't know is coming
knowing that if you're a high responder
with the right response is is a better
way to cover our asp