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In reply to the discussion: How do you react when I knock your door after dark with election materials in hand? [View all]Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)The only difference is if they are in distress, I will talk to them through my locked closed door and offer to call the police for them to get them some help. Otherwise, I'm not inviting strangers into my home after dark or even unlocking the door when strangers enter my yard.
Strangers had better have a good reason to be in my yard after dark anyhow. My neighbors' dogs consider my yard and me their territory and family/pack member and will not let anyone get to me anyhow. I'm lucky I get deliveries from FedEx and UPS as protective as they are. I have to go out and reassure the dogs when it is FedEx or UPS. Otherwise, they would defend me to the death. Of that, I have no doubt. I always make friends with the animals in any neighborhood I live or even visit for any decent amount of time, especially neighbors' pets. I doubt anyone would make it to my door after dark without a big huge alert from my neighbors' dogs, lights all over the neighborhood coming on, shotguns getting cocked and ready, and several dogs barking and edging closer and closer to them the further inside the pack's "territory" the stranger stepped.
S4A, please never try to visit me after dark. Unless you like the sound of cocking shotguns, the sight of lights all over a neighborhood coming on, the sight of blue lights flashing and the sound of growling ferocious large dogs who mean business, it is probably not a good idea for your own safety. Also, the dogs will not stop barking for the rest of the night at every sound they hear if you unnerve them that way.