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#22 ·
Plenty of good suggestions. About the best you can do is always make it look active and less attractive for opportunity. Move cars around in driveway even if your home. Door locks, window locks use them. Exterior motion lights for at night. Alarm stickers on windows and one on a small stake in the front of the house. Trim shrubs away from windows and keep them low. Keep ladders locked up in the shed or garage. Keep sheds and garage doors closed, so as to not advertise the contents. Dogs regardless of how friendly,are a deterrent due to them possibly barking. If you don't have one, Have a friend with a dog that barks come over once in a while with their dog. Get it to bark in the backyard. Offer to dog sit for friends and have the dog stay at your house for the weekend. Walk it through the neighborhood.

As with anything perception is reality. If it is someone in the neighborhood doing the break ins, if they see you walking a dog they will assume you have one. If the house is perceived as an easy target it will probably get hit.
 
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In all seriousness though, dogs are a good thing. My lab is friendly as can be but will "alarm bark" if something is moving around outside. Most of the time it's either deer or a fox/**** trying to get into the garbage, but he will wake from a dead sleep at 3:00 a.m. hackles up, barking like a rabid hound. That should be enough to at least convince the guy to move on to an easier target.
 
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#27 ·
Signal, dogs, and an nra sticker on the door. They'll go next door where it will be an easier score.
 
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I have a home alarm when I'm not home and then my police k9 does the job when we are home from work. A large dog (German Shepard) usually will make a burglary think twice about your home. I also have a apx home alarm system which is great. But my work truck and my dog do the trick just fine
 
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I can't afford an alarm system right now under the circumstances I've been unemployed since march 2011. Once I get a job I hope to get an alarm system put in. But it doesn't seem to stop this guy.
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Buy a security system sign (Brinks,Slomans, etc.) off ebay or another site, cheap and effective. Leave an alarm clock radio on during the day when your not home, it's atleast going to make him think twice. And once you have your doors and deadbolt locks squared away think about planting some thick, thorny bushes under any easily accessable windows. Motion detecting lights are cheap and effective as well. Scumbags are creatures of opportunity. They're not going to go out of thier way to hit a house that poses some sort of obstacle to the them when they could walk down the street and choose from the other 1,000+ houses.




God help him should I catch him in the act.
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You always do what you have to do to protect you and you family 100%. However, some of the people on here, seem a tad too excited to get that opportunity (I'm not reffering to you). The vast majority of people have no idea the amount of legal and civil obstacles there are even after a clean shoot. Just saying.
 
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#34 ·
Make someone else's house a easier target for them. I drilled a 2x4 with 3.5" screws sticking out into my basement windows as this is my weakest link security wise. You can get cheap alarms from home depot that are very loud for windows and doors. They are loud enough to wake you or deter anyone from entering. Look at areas in your house that are weak points. Good cover to hide and work on a window, cheap locks, etc and work on those.
 
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9mm in night stand,20ga,loaded,between bed and the safe.
Bring it on...........

My daughters little Terrier is our alarm system.
Some may laugh at her size, but beware she will remove some meat from your leg.
Talk to the Fed Ex guy that stepped into my home with out permission.
Seventeen stitches below his groin, ouch.
She now jumps much higher.[hihi]
 
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