Recent Neighborhood Burglaries

I wonder if they are friends with the sheriff? After all, you have receipts and warranties for all that stuff they stole that was inside the cabin. They were probably using the cabin before you bought it and think they have squatters rights. The DA for that county could get a search warrant just based on the trail of your personal belongings to that person's home. That is actually evidence. Finding your belongings inside that person's home is ----ing evidence. Sounds to me like the sheriff just didn't want to bother with people from out of the area. Spend a few weeks there this summer and be HIGHLY visible. Meet the rest of the neighbors. Target shoot out back of the cabin. (post signs warning people of it, too.) Plant a small garden. Make it look like you will be around regularly, even if you aren't. Go to the feed store and find out who is a trustworthy individual of like mind set that you could hire as supervisor of your property, with right of usage during the hunting season there, etc. That would have someone on or near your place almost every day. Kind of makes it hard to rob the new people when the one guy everyone in town knows is incapable of telling a lie is the one watching it!

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I'd leave Ohio. Move to TX, where you CAN defend yourself with a firearm.

Sounds like law enforcement is pretty useless there in OH.

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Go to google, news, then do a search on "rural home invasion". Plenty of stories, some ended good for the home owner, some not so much.

Windy_jem,

Wow that last dog, the little one looks posssed! He's the scary one if you ask me, like his eyes would burn a hole right through you. The big ones could be easily stopped by an intruders gun but that little one may have ten or fifteen lives. A bullet may do nothing to such a demon dog. He looks like he's drooling acid!

That's why HE is the alarm system....if the other dogs get killed, he's still here to rip up the intruder! lol

Windy Jem! I love the pictures...the last one is a riot
Here are my protectors
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And believe it or not...this is our best protector during the day. She is free range and comes quickly whenever anyone comes on the property. She will attack and people fear her...
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Minelson- your dogs are gorgeous! But you're right, I would be more afraid of the goat! lol

What Tracy said.

If you're not there to stop them, there's no stopping them. Dogs are good, but lead is better.

Is your alarm system working off of the ac grid? If the transformer is popped in the middle of the night, or whenever you're gone, will your system still work? DC powered systems are best.

You could always 'bait' the bad guys... place a well charged cell phone on silent ring... in a hidden spot inside a tool box or something of value, and let it 'get borrowed'. Get the authorities to do a gps trace on the phone.

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Her name is Gretta. She really is a sweetheart! But she is very leery of strangers and protective of her property. The Fed Ex guy won't even get out of his truck...the UPS guy lets her hop into his truck and gives her treats! She likes him...she hates the Fed Ex guy. It's like she knows if someone is afraid of her.

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I fear that there will be an increasing number of break-ins and robberies as the economy continues to go downhill, and more and more folks are out of jobs and even a place to live.
I don't have much to steal either, mostly food stored and on the hoof. I live on the edge of a very small town and everyone looks out for strangers. My huge LGD that has retired to the house, keeps most folks from thinking about coming into the house, backyard and pastures. He is 9 1/2 years old tho, and I have been thinking about getting a German Shepard puppy for him to train. I love the pictures of the guard dogs in the above posts. I have my first alert system in place too. An assortment of Boston Terrier, Daschund, and the worst one of all, a Chihuahua!! If anyone makes it thru the little guys and the BIG DOG, they have me to deal with and I can still shoot. I would rather avoid guns and hope the dogs are enough to keep the bad guys away.
If someone is hungry they can knock on the door and I will feed them.

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The burglar sysem is wired into our home electricity. It does have its own battery for when the power goes off, but we do not know how long it will run on the battery, that is on the list of things to ask the next time (tommorrow) dh calls the security business. I'll mention the dc powered system to dh, thanks

There are numerous burglars out there. They are all over the county, in the city and rural areas, right now they are not in our neighborhood. We have a few ideas why we were not broken into before; I am home full time, our house is partially hidden, our driveway is fully hidden. We think the robbers just knock on a door, and if no one answers, then they consider if this is a house to break into.

What is being stolen are guns, jewerly, prescription meds, tools, equipment, flat screen tvs!!!! (guess our tv under the converter box is safe). The break ins are in the day time. Hunger does not seem to be an issue yet, nothing stolen from the garden!

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I think its those RED eyes! Of all those dogs, that is the one that really gives me the creeps.

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You can tell what someone thinks by reading the bumper stickers on their car. You can also tell if they think at all.

Some of the rural areas can be horrible for property crimes. Especially when the large employers shut their doors. "Locals" think they are entitled to live in the country and "outsiders" (people with vacation or hunting cabins), whom they don't care about, are easy pickin's. Law enforcement is minimal, covers a large area with few deputies, are poorly trained or related to the thieves. Mix in drugs and alcohol abuse and the crime increases.

My friend advises parking overnight along a main highway in the UP of Michigan only as an emergency measure, because many are found stripped the next morning.

There are both good and bad people no matter where you live.

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You can tell what someone thinks by reading the bumper stickers on their car. You can also tell if they think at all.

My dogs are the alarms and initial protectors. My husband (who can, will, and has shot) will take care of the rest. Any person that walks into this out invited, sure won't be walking out on their own.

We had someone try to break into our house TWICE while we were living on a military post. The dogs scared them off both times, but the second time was right after my husband finished a 15 month combat tour....I've seen his knee-jerk reaction...wouldn't want to be at the receiving end.

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Here in good ole Ripley County, you don't even know if your neighbors up and down your own road are being robbed blind. The local paper is a weekly and the sheriff reports only say things like "a resident of Rt. 2 reported the theft of a riding mower Saturday, March 30." No name - no real address (route 2 covers a big area) and no description of the mower. After seeing a few of these vague reports you begin to wonder exactly WHERE on rt 2 the thefts are occurring. Most "neighbors" around here don't actually talk to each other. Mostly they feud over property lines, easements and dogs.
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