Her tree lined driveway is about 200 yards long. The part of her yard that she mows is about 600 X 500 ft. but she owns quite a bit of woods behind her. Her house is two story with a finished basement, but the basement is at ground level. When you roll up the driveway you roll up to the basement area, above that is the kitchen, living room wood stove etc., bedrooms are on the third floor.
She left for a while to go to the garden, a few acres she owns around the corner.
Wendy's always had German Shepards although she took a hiatus after her last one Buddy passed away. She now has "Bear" a smokey black 2 year old that's still a big puppy.
Wendy is petite, 5'1" maybe 115 lbs. She returned from the garden and as she headed toward the house, she saw someone in the kitchen one floor up. Bear is kept in the basement area but fenced off from the rest of the house because he tends to chew on things like the cat.
She ran to the house, Bear met her with glee and they both ran up the stairs to the kitchen as she yells "Lets get him Bear". He's not a watch dog but glad to anything like running and jumping.
The intruder bounds out the French doors of the kitchen, across the deck and hops the rail dropping a story down to the lawn and tears off into the woods. Wendy and Bear give chase. They chased him through her property, around the pond, across the road and into the woods on the other side of the road when Wendy ran out of steam. She went home and called the cops.
OMG they were there fast! They brought a dog, too many cop cars and a helicopter! Dayummmm.
They set the K-9 loose in the woods where Wendy lost him on the other side of the road, the police pooch tracked him right up to his house, a new neighbor.
The cops went through his house finding it stuffed with stolen junk. Wendy was brought to the guy's house to identify him but because of glare on the glass door, adrenelin etc., she couldn't positively identify him.
She had two brandy new $50 bills on her dresser, not folded or anything; the guy had two brandy new $50 bills on him but they couldn't be traced to Wendy.
He was arrested. It seems, unknown to Wendy, that all of the neighbors have been hit lately hence the quick hyperactive response.
The guy's in jail. Neighbors have been brought to his house to identify stuff, he's going to be a guest of the county for a while on a previous encounter.
Looks like Wendy cracked a burglary case. 
Now to work on that windage issue.
Dan
would be useless other than a scare tactic if an intruder were present - hes a typical Husky - typically aloof and uninterested in us unless theres cooked and seasoned red meat involved. Hed probably grunt in lazy aggravation because the new biped in the house was disturbing his nap. Unless Bandit thought the guy would be interesting to play with, he wouldnt do much to help stop my valuables from being pilfered other than maybe present a trip hazard
