Loyal German shepherd ‘teaches’ the would-be thief a serious lesson while saving the owner’s property

A robber had initially thought a house in Chesterfield, Virginia, was an easy target with the family away, but soon realized just how wrong he was upon breaking in.

A family returned to their Ashbrooke home on the night of Aug. 10 to a gruesome scene—the walls and floors of their home were marked with blood almost everywhere. The family’s guard dog had dealt the would-be robber a serious lesson, before the injured thief managed to escape, minus the loot.

One family member, Tristan Murrin, posted photos of the gruesome scene on his Facebook page and said that he was so proud of his dog, a German shepherd, that he urges everyone to consider buying or adopting a dog so as to keep the home safe.

The family told ABC that there have been several break-ins in their neighborhood, and this was the first time they had experienced it themselves.

Murrin, who was the first person to discover the gruesome scene, said, “We didn’t see anything wrong nothing at the front door.”

When their dog came out to greet them, they knew something was wrong. “We noticed something when we walked in, when I walked in with my mother and there is blood spots on the ground, we looked up stairs and you see trails of blood coming from up stairs going all the way down,” he said.

The intruder had picked the wrong house, thinking that no one was at home.

“My dog, he’s a pretty big dog, it’s a larger German shepherd,” Murrin said of his dog, but added that his dog is gentle towards children.

“He plays with the kids, the cul-de-sac knows him. They know him as big dog, the community loves him, the kids come up to him and want to touch him and play with him,” he said.

Speaking of how his dog handled the situation, Murrin said that he was glad his dog wasn’t hurt. “I think the dog did its job. He knew that someone was not supposed to be in my house and no one was home and he knows that he wasn’t supposed to be in there and he was doing something that he wasn’t supposed to be doing and so he knew to act upon it,” he said.

As for the robber, the family believed that the person requires serious medical attention and the police are now investigating.