See how they’ve grown!

They can’t fit under side-tables and they can’t play with toys indoors. In fact, they’re not allowed to be boisterous in the house because they’re just too big.

We do need them inside and outside the house, though, because they’re our Security System. Burglaries - and break-ins for more sinister reasons - occur here, sometimes having very unpleasant results. We have a good electronic response system in place, and we feel even safer having the additional immediate and vicious reaction from our German Shepherds.

Here they are, at eleven months old, each weighing +/- 50 kgs. Their bark is viscious. Already, when people walking down the road approach our house, they move to the opposite side of the road.

Shep

Sally, with Shep looking on

I was once bowled over by Sally when I inadvertently moved in front of her. She'd seen another dog or a person walking too close to her gate!