A Shepard and a Mal in the house. Nothing under fifty pounds is safe within a couple hundred yards of this place. Skunks,n squirrel rabbits and woodchuck you name it they chase it down. Plus the occasional bird that is not accustomed to the jumping ability of a Mal. These guys can spot a cat in the pasture from a long way off. I dread the day they tangle with our pair of resident bobcats. But I think the bobcats would just get treed. They are reclusive. Our boy wants to smoke the bobcat because it spooked his wife last year while she was squirrel hunting. I have explained repeatedly he was just being a Bobcat doing Bobcat things. He gets a bobcat pass!