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Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

Do You Lock Your Doors?

jlbear71 · Guru

Force their way in and rob you. Sometimes it is worse. Sometimes they knock on the front and enter thru the back.

Cheerios4606 · Guru

We sometimes lock the doors, but no one really worries over it. I have two german shepherds that are very protective of our home. Just this last weekend, I heard the dogs barking out the small window I had open in the front door. By the time I got to the door to see what they were yapping about, I watched 2 solicitors walking away. Quickly. LOL!

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

jlbear71 wrote:
Force their way in and rob you. Sometimes it is worse. Sometimes they knock on the front and enter thru the back.

I will be remembering to lock my door now!

Cheerios4606 · Guru

I had a good friend get burglarized once. She told the police that a few days before there was a knock on the door but she didnt answer it right away cuz she was in the middle of something. By the time she got to the door tho, they were gone. The cops said it was probably them at the door knocking to see if she had a dog that barks. She has a dog, an American bulldog, but he isn't a barker.

While she was at work, they jumped her fence, broke in through a back window, took one of her pillow cases and stole over 75K worth of jewelry and computer stuff... then probably pet the dog on their way out the front door. The job probably took them 5 minutes.

The cops said the best thing to do to scare burglars away is to have a barking dog.

I think having two is better than one. ;)

Tinydancer · Guru

Even a locked door won't guarantee they won't get in. I lock my doors even now that I'm living back in the boonies. Hopefully it's makes it just that much harder so they move on to an easier target.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

I wouldn't be too scared if they burglarized my house while I was at work. Poor suckers will be so disappointed. I have no jewelry of value, my computer was a hand me down from my office & is at least 10 yo. I could go on & on but seriously I have nothing of real value to take. I'm sure I'd feel creeped out & violated for a while after.

On the other hand if they entered when I was home alone I'd be terrified.

weltschmerz · Guru

For the longest time, I had a sign on my front door, saying "Careful! Please Don't Let The Rats Out."

I had it there because I didn't want anyone letting my rats out by accident.

Didn't get robbed once!!

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Which proves what? In order to do a controlled study, you would have to post a "Please come in and rob me" type to sign to see if the sign really had any effect or not.

FNW · Guru

I grew up with locked doors, but our neighbors did not. And our house was the one broken in to. Go figure.

I have had alarm systems ever since. Even when I rented, I used wireless systems. DH grew up with unlocked doors. It's not second nature for him to lock it, so there are times when he forgets. I would like to get one of those systems where you can use an app on your phone, but I worry it would just enable someone to hack into it and defeat the purpose of protecting my home.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
Which proves what? In order to do a controlled study, you would have to post a "Please come in and rob me" type to sign to see if the sign really had any effect or not.

I think a "Please come in and rob me. The dog is always hungry and good dog food is expensive." would be good.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Sad story this week:

A one-year-old girl was missing from her home in southern Indiana. Her body was found yesterday. Apparently a guy walked in & took her from her crib. Would a locked door have prevented it?

I don't know.

flan

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

flan327 wrote:
Sad story this week:

A one-year-old girl was missing from her home in southern Indiana. Her body was found yesterday. Apparently a guy walked in & took her from her crib. Would a locked door have prevented it?

I don't know.

flan

Or, it was an inside job?

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Sad story this week:

A one-year-old girl was missing from her home in southern Indiana. Her body was found yesterday. Apparently a guy walked in & took her from her crib. Would a locked door have prevented it?

I don't know.

flan
Or, it was an inside job?

No, they think it was someone getting "revenge" on the family.

flan

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Lawyerlady wrote:
Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
Which proves what? In order to do a controlled study, you would have to post a "Please come in and rob me" type to sign to see if the sign really had any effect or not.
I think a "Please come in and rob me. The dog is always hungry and good dog food is expensive." would be good.

Or a picture with everyone in the family holding guns and riffles over a dead bear with a couple great big dogs.

FNW · Guru

I was afraid to leave the boys in their stroller parked in our backyard (before we got a fence) for fear of someone snatching. And I live in a quiet neighborhood a mile from the main road.

So sad about that little baby.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

flan327 wrote:
Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Sad story this week:

A one-year-old girl was missing from her home in southern Indiana. Her body was found yesterday. Apparently a guy walked in & took her from her crib. Would a locked door have prevented it?

I don't know.

flan
Or, it was an inside job?
No, they think it was someone getting "revenge" on the family.
flan

That is a hell of a revenge. How horrible.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Lexxy wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Sad story this week:

A one-year-old girl was missing from her home in southern Indiana. Her body was found yesterday. Apparently a guy walked in & took her from her crib. Would a locked door have prevented it?

I don't know.

flan
Or, it was an inside job?
No, they think it was someone getting "revenge" on the family.
flan
That is a hell of a revenge. How horrible.

The story on the morning news didn't give many details. There was no Amber alert issued, though.

flan

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Alright, my lovely Layla loves kids. But apparently the whole neighborhood picked my front yard to play in. I honestly have no issue with the kids playing there. SS has soccer goals and they like them. But Layla wants to play. So she is laying at the front door snorting and whining. Every now and then she'll bark. If I were on the other side of the door I doubt I'd hang around.

Oh, and the family behind us has a little girl that looks about ten. They either have a swing set or a trampoline. Every time my dogs go out she hangs over the six foot privacy fence which sets the pups off. Then the mom comes out and gives me a dirty look. And I give her a dirty look right back.

TrudyML · Guru

You get the dirty look? Yikes.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

TrudyML wrote:
You get the dirty look? Yikes.

Yeah, I don't know why? Get your brat off the fence. She literally hangs her arms OVER the fence. It's a six foot privacy fence. It's not like something she can just stand there and taunt my dog through. She has to work hard at getting up high enough to hang over the fence. My dogs stay in my yard and when we let them out we watch them. That's how we know what's going on. And the mom will come out and yell at her to get in the house away from that "nasty" dog. Um beotch, that "nasty" dog is in HER yard doing what she is supposed to do!

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

flan327 wrote:
Lexxy wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Sad story this week:

A one-year-old girl was missing from her home in southern Indiana. Her body was found yesterday. Apparently a guy walked in & took her from her crib. Would a locked door have prevented it?

I don't know.

flan
Or, it was an inside job?
No, they think it was someone getting "revenge" on the family.
flan
That is a hell of a revenge. How horrible.
The story on the morning news didn't give many details. There was no Amber alert issued, though.
flan

Such a sad story and that poor baby. cry

FNW · Guru

This reminds me of my step MIL. She had a "privacy fence" installed between her house and the next door neighbor. But she went with a wooden fence, and had the side with the "slats" facing the neighbor's yard because she didn't want to look at that side. Well, having grown up with that kind of fence, I can tell you that those slats make it real easy (and fun) for a kid to climb on to peer over. And that's exactly what her neighbor kids did. I LMAO'd when she told me. I said, "well, that's what you get for putting that side up on their yard."

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

FNW wrote:
This reminds me of my step MIL. She had a "privacy fence" installed between her house and the next door neighbor. But she went with a wooden fence, and had the side with the "slats" facing the neighbor's yard because she didn't want to look at that side. Well, having grown up with that kind of fence, I can tell you that those slats make it real easy (and fun) for a kid to climb on to peer over. And that's exactly what her neighbor kids did. I LMAO'd when she told me. I said, "well, that's what you get for putting that side up on their yard."

I didn't put up the fence. This neighborhood was built like this. EVERY house has a privacy fence. And, just an FYI the slats are on OUR side of the fence. So she's NOT climbing on the slats. I think she has a trampoline actually.

FNW · Guru

We didn't build our fence (growing up) either, and the slats were on our side. I was prohibited from climbing on them, however. I saw nothing wrong with looking at them either.

weltschmerz · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
TrudyML wrote:
You get the dirty look? Yikes.
Yeah, I don't know why? Get your brat off the fence. She literally hangs her arms OVER the fence. It's a six foot privacy fence. It's not like something she can just stand there and taunt my dog through. She has to work hard at getting up high enough to hang over the fence. My dogs stay in my yard and when we let them out we watch them. That's how we know what's going on. And the mom will come out and yell at her to get in the house away from that "nasty" dog. Um beotch, that "nasty" dog is in HER yard doing what she is supposed to do!

It would be nice if you could put some voltage through it.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

I think the girl has a trampoline. She stands on the edge of it and dangles her arms over our side of the fence. My dogs are all big enough to reach her arms if they stand on their hind legs. They have never gone over the fence. Kids should not taunt dogs. Especially when the dogs are in their own homes. Not sure what we could put up though.

ed11563 · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
I think the girl has a trampoline. She stands on the edge of it and dangles her arms over our side of the fence. My dogs are all big enough to reach her arms if they stand on their hind legs. They have never gone over the fence. Kids should not taunt dogs. Especially when the dogs are in their own homes. Not sure what we could put up though.

poison ivy? barbed wire or broken glass on the top of the fence?

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
I think the girl has a trampoline. She stands on the edge of it and dangles her arms over our side of the fence. My dogs are all big enough to reach her arms if they stand on their hind legs. They have never gone over the fence. Kids should not taunt dogs. Especially when the dogs are in their own homes. Not sure what we could put up though.

Have you thought about just shouting, "Hey, get off my fence!"

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Lawyerlady wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
I think the girl has a trampoline. She stands on the edge of it and dangles her arms over our side of the fence. My dogs are all big enough to reach her arms if they stand on their hind legs. They have never gone over the fence. Kids should not taunt dogs. Especially when the dogs are in their own homes. Not sure what we could put up though.
Have you thought about just shouting, "Hey, get off my fence!"

I have. I guess I figured her mother would actually discipline her. Yeah yeah yeah...

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
I think the girl has a trampoline. She stands on the edge of it and dangles her arms over our side of the fence. My dogs are all big enough to reach her arms if they stand on their hind legs. They have never gone over the fence. Kids should not taunt dogs. Especially when the dogs are in their own homes. Not sure what we could put up though.

Indeed. The dogs are merely defending their property and their owners.

flan

ed11563 · Guru

I'd take a hand mirror (or a camera) and see what's really on the other side of the fence.

If there's something the kid is standing on to reach over the fence, her mother should be asked (nicely) to fix the situation so her DD can't reach across and maybe get bitten.

Don't do it while someone is in their back yard though.

Tignanello · My dog name is, Sasha!

I lock my door and my car at all times. But I live between a drug dealer and a poorly disguised grow-op.