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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 518058" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Signorina, that same thing happened in our very small, usually very safe little town. Someone was going door to door in broad daylight pretending to be selling something. If an elderly person who appeared to be alone answered the door, especially if it was a woman, they would keep her engaged at the front door while another one went in her back door and robbed her blind! I have FOUR outside doors in this little bitty house but they all stay locked all the time. I never locked my doors when I lived out in the country but I keep them locked all the time now that I live in town. You just never know. With the economy the way it is and with the drug epidemic being what it is, there are a lot of people out there desperate for money.</p><p></p><p>I always figured that my dogs are my first line of defense. If someone was looking to break in to a house and they heard FOUR dogs barking inside, hopefully they'd have enough sense to go somewhere else. And when all four of them are barking, it sounds like a lot more than four of them! My mixed breed, Freebie, is 40 lbs. tops, but she has this loud explosive bark that sounds like a dog three times her size. She barks if a leaf falls off a tree or if a butterfly poots as it flitters through the yard, or if a stray dog is within a block of our house. But she has a completely different bark if there is a person out there! It's even louder, more insistant. She's ALWAYS right and I always know when someone is coming up the walk.</p><p></p><p>Shari, I hope this woman was exactly what she appeared to be, just someone who doesn't plan very well and really needed the help. But I always say you should hope for the best but plan for the worst. Someone who was checking you out would be looking to see if you were alone, if you had dogs, if you appeared to have cash on hand. And she may not have been alone either, depending on how you checked out. It's a shame you have to think about things like this now but these are different times and you really can't trust anyone anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 518058, member: 1883"] Signorina, that same thing happened in our very small, usually very safe little town. Someone was going door to door in broad daylight pretending to be selling something. If an elderly person who appeared to be alone answered the door, especially if it was a woman, they would keep her engaged at the front door while another one went in her back door and robbed her blind! I have FOUR outside doors in this little bitty house but they all stay locked all the time. I never locked my doors when I lived out in the country but I keep them locked all the time now that I live in town. You just never know. With the economy the way it is and with the drug epidemic being what it is, there are a lot of people out there desperate for money. I always figured that my dogs are my first line of defense. If someone was looking to break in to a house and they heard FOUR dogs barking inside, hopefully they'd have enough sense to go somewhere else. And when all four of them are barking, it sounds like a lot more than four of them! My mixed breed, Freebie, is 40 lbs. tops, but she has this loud explosive bark that sounds like a dog three times her size. She barks if a leaf falls off a tree or if a butterfly poots as it flitters through the yard, or if a stray dog is within a block of our house. But she has a completely different bark if there is a person out there! It's even louder, more insistant. She's ALWAYS right and I always know when someone is coming up the walk. Shari, I hope this woman was exactly what she appeared to be, just someone who doesn't plan very well and really needed the help. But I always say you should hope for the best but plan for the worst. Someone who was checking you out would be looking to see if you were alone, if you had dogs, if you appeared to have cash on hand. And she may not have been alone either, depending on how you checked out. It's a shame you have to think about things like this now but these are different times and you really can't trust anyone anymore. [/QUOTE]
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