Watchdogs extraordinaire

Our cairn terriers Ollie and Pepper are always on patrol. Sometimes to great effect, spying our Fed Ex man at the front gate, our pool guy doing his weekly service, or the gardener working in the yard. Bark, bark, bark! The cacophony is usually followed by lots of window peering and dashes to the door, as you see in the video below. 

And yet at night when the Ring camera sound goes off - and it's triggered multiple times every night - the dogs sleep through it or just ignore. The local raccoon, opossum and armadillo population inevitably traipses through the hedges right outside the master bedroom windows overnight where the dogs snooze with us, followed by the Ring noise. They typically don't move a muscle. They've investigated a few times, but I think now it has become just a blasé, oh there's the nightly critter tip-toeing through the boxwoods, no need for alarm. No need to disturb mom and dad. I guess if we want a real guard dog to set up a ruckus, we need to invest in a twitchy rescue junkyard dog.