Last night about 2:30 AM Xara started growling in her crate. I yelled to her to hush and tried to go back to sleep.  She kept it up and kept it up and then it turned into this growling/yapping/barking thing that would not stop.

I admit, I was a bit ticked off at being interupted in my sleep and got up to yell at her and make her lay down and be quiet.  BUT,,,when I went into the living room I see the lights on in my neighbors car across the street and someone (who was NOT my neighbor) taking things out of the car.  I turned on my porch light and the person took off like a bat out of hell.  I called my neighbor and woke her up to tell her someone was in her car.

Seems we had a rash of car break in's last night in the neighborhood and little Miss Xara was the ONLY dog in the house who alerted to something not being right outside!!! My other dogs were snoring away and never so much as batted an eye lash through the whole thing, they are so used to noises outside they never paid any attention.

Xara has just recently started showing her "guard dog" side and barking at strange noises and objects/shadows outside at night. It's been rather funny, and rather annoying too (she thinks the cars on the parkway through the woods should NOT be there at night and barks her fool head off at them when I let her out and she can see the headlights through the trees. The parkway is quite a few miles away but the headlights can be seen in the distance from my yard).

Xara wins the prize for preventing my neighbors car from being ransacked or stolen last night.  GOOD GIRL ZOOBY!