S H T F guard dog

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You must look at breeds of dogs from an historical context and extend that to SHTF situations.

The breeds of large guard dogs were kept by wealthy and powerful people who could afford to feed their dogs and the dogs ate better than the villains.

In turn those dogs kept the peasants from stealing inside the castle or town walls and helped track down run away villains who tried to escape into the forest and live off poaching the Lords' game in "lone wolf" fashion.

The dogs of the peasants were not pets, they were small breed rat and vermin catchers that could feed themselves. Peasants would not have been allowed a guard dog.

There were very strict laws back in the day concerning what dogs which people could own.

History repeats itself.