(27 May 2014, 14:06)bigpaul Wrote: no body seems to have mentioned guard dogs, dogs have a hundred times better hearing than any human and will let you know someone is about long before any human guard would. also trip wires, snares and traps will slow them down(intruders that is not dogs) .
Monty did say about that, down the bottom of his post. But not a massive post about it.
(27 May 2014, 02:08)Mortblanc Wrote: The fatigue of constant guard duty is one good reason to keep some good dogs. Even in middle ages Europe the watchman and his dogs patrolled the streets of the walled cities at night.
Not sure whippets would make good guard dogs though haha.