{"id":466107,"date":"2026-09-16T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466107\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T23:26:09","slug":"watch-golden-retriever-beg-to-play-with-intruder-in-san-diego-break-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466107\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch golden retriever beg to play with intruder in San Diego break-in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While Dante Rowley and his fianc\u00e9e were out of town during one of the most brutal heat waves<\/a> of the year, a man broke into their San Diego home through an open upstairs window. <\/p>\n

The intruder might have been deterred by the couple\u2019s two dogs \u2014 except that neither canine acted like a traditional guard dog.<\/p>\n

One simply went outside through a doggy door, while the other tried to engage the man, walking up to him repeatedly with toys in mouth, tail wagging. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur dog tried to play with him,\u201d Rowley said, laughing. \u201cHe\u2019s super friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Golden retriever wants to play with intruder as cops arrive to make arrest. (Dante Rowley and Stephanie Calderon)<\/p>\n

Lucky for Rowley, the man didn\u2019t do much while he was inside, appearing to take a nap and eat some food from the fridge before police arrived, according to security footage video that Rowley shared with The Times. The incident was first reported by NBC 7 San Diego<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe just think he was trying to get out of the heat,\u201d Rowley said of the man, who was arrested about an hour later, according to video. San Diego police did not respond to questions from The Times.<\/p>\n

Usually Nash, their friendly golden retriever, jumps and barks at new visitors, Rowley said, but once they get inside, \u201che just thinks it\u2019s time to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nash appeared pretty calm the entire time the man was inside the home, video showed, despite the circumstances. <\/p>\n

The prowler, whom police didn\u2019t identify, was first recorded hopping over the fence before retrieving a ladder so he could enter through an open upstairs window. He then rested and snacked and talked to himself for more than an hour, even as police circled the home, called for him to exit and sent a drone inside to search for him, video shows. <\/p>\n

Rowley and his fianc\u00e9e, Stephanie Calderon, watched almost the entire incident in real time from their security cameras as they were traveling back from Chicago. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were just like, \u2018What is going on right now?\u2019\u201d Rowley said. <\/p>\n

Despite Nash attempting to play, the man never engaged with the dog. <\/p>\n

At one point when the man went upstairs, the couple tried to speak through the security system and encourage Nash to go outside. But he stayed put. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were just concerned about the dog, really,\u201d Rowley said. \u201cWe were just really happy that the dog was safe afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides the eaten snacks and some outdoor pots that broke during the burglar\u2019s attempted escape, Rowley said nothing was stolen and there was no damage to the home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Dante Rowley and his fianc\u00e9e were out of town during one of the most brutal heat waves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[183556,2899,39128,55010,183558,1073,4456,39018,1555,175101,183559,236,74,183557,76,75,1791,5050],"class_list":["post-466107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-dante-rowley","tag-dog","tag-fiancee","tag-golden-retriever","tag-guard-dog","tag-home","tag-incident","tag-intruder","tag-man","tag-nash","tag-open-upstairs-window","tag-police","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-break-in","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-times","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}