Nice pootches Johan! Hope you hace lots of space for them to run around.
Watchdogs are only good if they have access to your house, in other words they sleep next to your bed, in the passage or near the bedrooms (not in the bed). People fool themselves by thinking they protect you when being outside in the garden all the time. Robbers are either poisening the dogs or spraying them with Cook and Spray to get access to your home.
In Henley-on-Klip the Dogs are being poisend like insects these days, its bad!
My dad bread Bullmastiffs as watch/protector dogs for yonks! Here is a few tips -
Tips:
Train your Dogs.
Dont over feed them.
Play with them everyday.
Things to watch out for, espesially with watch-dogs:
Dogs should never walk in front of you. Its a sign that they are the master. a Good watch dog will walk beside you.
When you open your house door, your dog should not wrestle its way past you to get in first, its a sign that its the master.
Dogs should allways eat after you have eaten, if they eat before you they will think they are the master.
a Dog that thinks its the "Baas of the Plaas" will become problematic.
Grrrrrrriiiinnnnnn!!!