re: Somebody in NW LA / E TX needs to save this Black Mouth Cur.

I agree with that completely.

Nobody is coming in your/her yard that you haven't OK'd. Period.

And if she's inside and someone comes to the door that you don't know that's causing any kind of worry for whoever is opening the door, they better pray they aren't there to do evil because that dog is going right up their arse.

I've seen it with mine when the girls answered the door when they had a house full of little girls over for a sleepover so they were all in PJ's. Mostly strangers but they were cool with us so Jesse's cool with them and loving on all of them. One was left to come over but the pizza guy showed up first. I got there just in time for the girls to predictably open the door, freak the hell out at the large black guy they've never seen before, see Jesse's back go up like a Rhodesian ridgeback, do that seriously terrifying growl/bark as he moved to cut the dude off from coming in while the girls were running for it and then instantly chill when I moved up and told him to back off. He then moved behind me and stayed on alert but was not aggressive at all.

Pretty sure had I not been there and that guy had not almost pissed himself backing up and instead tried to come in, that dog would have sent him to the hospital or died trying.

Like I said, they go on your energy. And by you I mean your entire family. You leave them there alone, that dog has your back. You leave the dog there by itself, he's got your yard's back. But once he knows who's cool and who's not, it's fine. My neighbors love him because he also watches their yards as well if he doesn't know somebody even though he does it from my fence. Once they introduce him to someone, he doesn't bark at them anymore. It's really pretty amazing.