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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1251860, member: 31533&quot;]I agree. But the key (IMO) to my canine security system (large dog, in the house) is to never let outsiders (other than my family, a few chosen friends and a couple neighbors) KNOW that my dog is a pushover or will cower when yelled at. Bottom line is I still don&#039;t know what he would do if he was confronted by someone he didn&#039;t know who was breaking into the house. I&#039;ve been told that he probably would react to protect me if I was home, and all. I know one time workers came to my home early while I was still in bed, and walked near my window. He growled (different than I ever heard him before, a warning growl) and I woke up. So guess he might. In any case, except for the people I&#039;ve mentioned, others who come around (solicitors, etc.) (and especially if they ask if the dog is friendly) I TELL THEM that It&#039;s possible he might not be with some people he doesn&#039;t know, and give the impression he could be a danger to them! That it could, in fact be harmful if he was approached in my house by them or if I opened the door all the way and held him while they were at the door. A good offense is the start of a great defense. :evilGrin:Besides, I also am a big believer in having small amounts of &quot;valuables&quot; in open or not so open or &quot;decoy&quot; (think the portable safes you can get for 30.00 bucks), because if a someone does end up burglarizing my place, it&#039;s not a huge loss. If I do share about my collecting coins to someone, I downplay the value and basically just say that I collect from change, bank rolls, etc., and stress how it&#039;s not valuable, just that I like doing it to look for the &quot;best&quot; coin I can get for my &quot;meager&quot; collection, then it&#039;s less likely that if someone came in they would continue really looking for stuff if they already got more than what they might have expected, and pretty easy too. </p><p><br /></p><p>Besides, more likely they would want to steal things like TV&#039;s etc. I would suppose.:evilGrin:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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