Ram earned his keep last night

[Sue-Ram]

Last night we were up stairs and I heard a knock at the door so I told Ram to stay at the top of the stairs and I went down to open the door. It was a very considerate guy from one of those the door-to-door "energy" companies to ensure that my HVAC was compliant with new regulations. How thoughtful of him.

Unfortunately to this nice, considerate guy Ram appeared to be "a really big dog". I guess he may have appeared to be an imposing figure from the top of the stairs with his deep bark that I may have forgotten to sssshhh. Funny thing was that all I had to say was "that's not necessary" and he immediately left. That's never happened before.

[MontananDakota]

Fantastic. He gets extra snuggles, kisses, treats today I assume?

[Jeff]

LOL, People see Hemi and think the same thing. He has that really deep rumbling bark. Especially when he is standing there staring out the front window at them. Then when he realizes they are coming to the front door, Hemi gets all happy, people are coming to see me dad and starts bouncing all over. A lot less intimidating.

[SoapySophie]

I hate those guys! I don't know what kind of brainwash-training they go through, but one actually put his foot on the threshold of my door after I told him no thanks!! I couldn't believe the balls!!

Didn't have the dog then. I'd rather not go through it again to find out what she'd do.

[Sue-Ram]

After I closed the door he ran into the bedroom and grabbed his pink easter bunny stuffie. Tough guy to wuss in 10 seconds.

[katALlabs]

Usually the UPS guy knocks on the door and startles Maddie awake which is usually followed by a bark from her that I can only describe as sounding like someone stuck a hot poker up her butt. Very high pitched at first then down to her normal deep big girl bark. If anyone only knew she'd turn tail and run if you tried to say hi.

[Snowshoe]

Good boy Ram. Some of those people can be very pushy. A dog who barks at the door isn't always a bad thing.

[Blackboy98]

Good boy Ram!!! You tell that guy-get in your car and out of here.

[CraftHer]

Good boy Ram! This week the county guy came out to check the leech fields for our septic tank. Mocha believes everyone who comes to the front door loves him and wants to pet him. I'm a little embarrassed that I didn't tell him the 'stay' first and Mocha went out the front door and started sniffing the guy. He said he had a dog and they were soon friends. He walked off the porch to check the septic and said "Hey, Mocha, wanna come with me?" So Mocha did. I know I could have handled it much better.

We don't get many salesmen anymore because we are too far out of town and too far off the road for them to bother (yeah). However, when we lived in town (and on a corner) we got a lot of salesmen. My husband answered one for windows. (Background, the house was built in 1960 and still had the original windows). The guy goes into his pitch for new windows and my husband responses "What! These windows are vintage! They're original to the house. We love our vintage windows" They guy had no answer. This was also pre-Mocha.

[MightyThor]

Thor barks and barks at the tree trimmers in the neighbor's yard. They come once a month and know him now. The routine is Thor runs out the doggy door, jumps up and down, and barks. Then the tree trimmer guy (on top of a ladder on the other side of the fence) says, "oh yeah, tough guy?" Then he comes down for a good few minutes of playtime where thor melts into a happy wiggly pile of labby goo.

The first time the trimmers didn't see him since the big meyer lemon tree was in the way and they were surprised to find a happy lab on the other side of that bark. So I'm really happy we have a 'speak' command trained. From behind a closed door he sounds scary!