[DeTomaso] NPC- Dogs and UPS Trucks

[Garth Rodericks]

FWIW, I have a totally timid teddy bear of a Golden Retriever. However, whenever the mail 
carrier comes into the front yard she gets ferociously viscous and has broken her collar while 
charging him when she was tied up. Even if she's in the back yard when he comes, she'll run 
to the fence to bark and growl as soon as she hears him. 

I was discussing this with a good friend who used to train guard dogs and he told me that it 
was a learned response. The dog's job is to protect her family/home; someone approached 
the house, she barked and growled, and he left - she did her job!  And it's become a daily 
routine that's been repeated every day since she was just over 8 weeks old.