Alphonse (my CO) sounds like he is similar to Yogi. He sees my father as a playmate and not his superior. They play very rough which he is never allowed to do with me. One day my dad was swatting my leg while Alphonse was sleeping, and I became frustrated and screamed at him to stop and Alphonse was up and between us.

When it comes to being approached by strangers, he is very calm UNLESS they are doing something very unusual. If they are drunk and tottering, yelling and screaming, or generally acting completely out of the ordinary he will give them PLENTY of warning but if they continue to approach he will snap. This is something I have only experienced with drunken men forcefully approaching me and running at me, and I give them plenty of warning as well not to approach us.

He is very protective of my room and my car, and if he does not know you and I am not there, he will not allow that. I have watched how he handles my car being approached from afar. One day while I was at work, my roommate's husband brought friends to the house--none of which he had met or heard before--and he slammed into his kennel with such force that he flexed the door open, and then proceeded to dig the corner out of my door trying to get to them in the living room. This was the first and only time he has every destroyed anything.

If I am home, I manage how he meets strangers.