Would You Blow $230,000 For A German Shepherd Guard Dog That Can Understand 3 Languages? Because I Wouldn’t

Look, if you’re so concerned about the security of your home that you’re willing to blow $230,000 on a highly-trained super watchdog rather than just figure out how to make a couple of pipe bombs with $30 and a trip to Home Depot, you’ve got way too much money on your hands. You know how many $30 pipe bombs you could buy with $230,000? That’s 7,666 pipe bombs you can bury underneath the ground, or lay as booby traps in your floorboards for unsuspecting intruders for the same price as one dog. If you really think about it, that dog’ll probably get hit by a passing minivan anyway because the maid you hire to clean your mansion every day has never owned a dog and didn’t know that for the first few days of ownership you can’t let them just run amok through the neighborhood.

In other words, pipe bombs are more worth the money. Also, I don’t know how pipe bombs work so if they’re not pressure-triggered then I sounded like a complete idiot up top.

Moving on.

If you’re looking to up the security system in your home with a $230,000 German shepherd, then Harrison K-9, an Aiken, South Carolina-based importer and trainer of guard dogs is the place you need to go! One of their most recent “prized” dogs, Lilli, recently sold for $80,000. Why $80,000 and not $230,000? Well…

… top German shepherds can go much higher. Harrison K-9 once sold a dog named Julia for $230,000.

The price is determined by the dogs’ intelligence, beauty, training and bloodlines, which for top dogs often trace back as much as 100 years.

“There’s a show in Europe, you can equate it to sort of the Miss Universe Pageant,” said November Holley, who runs the training program at Harrison K-9. “Julia placed in the top 50 dogs in the world.”(Via)

The dogs are all trilingual, meaning they understand a combination of English, German and hand signals. Admittedly, a $30 pipe bomb you made with shit from Home Depot will do the same thing if you scream at it in German as it will if you scream at it in English: nothing. So if you’re looking for a good conversation partner then I suppose the dogs have got at least one leg up on ‘em.

[H/T CNBC]