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First and foremost what I want is a family companion that is friendly, sociable, and very well behaved when I invite someone into our home.

Secondly I want a watchdog and will alert the presence of a person(s) coming onto our property by barking or acting in an agitated manner and will cease the alert on command or reduction of threat. And hopefully that is all our dog will ever need to do. But if/when that person enters the home uninvited and acts in a threatening manner, on command or when my family is in jeopardy I want our dog to put itself between the threat and my family and to try to stop(hold) that person from reaching my family by intimidation, threat, or bitework and will cease the attack/defense on command or reduction of threat.

Most importantly in the unlikely event something like this ever happens, I don’t want a potentially deadly incident to be the first time our dog has been in a human/canine fight, and her be forced to solely rely upon her instincts to get through the incident.

I don’t want is a guard dog that will be left outside like at a gunk yard or something. I don’t want a police or military attack/patrol dog. I just want a dog with some professional training on how to better protect my home and family.

Just to be clear I have no intention of solely relying upon a dog, UBERHUND, to protect my family but rather to be just another link in my chain of defenses with myself being the anchor on the end of the chain.

We bought a home in a nice neighborhood, we have a home security system, we have motion lights outside our home, fences, etc... Our last dog, Onyx, was a great instinctive watchdog but this time I want something more.

Is what I’ve outlined above an unreasonable goal?

I would have figured most if not all Rottweilers, German Shepards, Bullmastiffs, etc from truly good breeding would be able to do such tasks, if not that is where my lack of understanding is coming from.

Also before I’m asked if I’ve talked to the breeder about this, I have not. That is actually why I’m asking here first, so I can learn more about this so I can ask the right questions, intelligent questions, to the breeder and some of the local training clubs in my area.