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Vinbek- That is scary but good advice. I always lock the doors even though I was raised in a low crime area and still live in one. For one year in college I lived in my own apartment and my parents beat it into my head that doors must be locked. My husband began to embrace it when we lived in a ground floor apartment and some drunk friend of our neighbor walked in the living room one night. I have never been so angry, the fool didn't even knock or apologize!

Funny aside on the salesman.... One thing is I always open then door only enough to see them and the way the house is built you cannot see anything because the front door is angled. But we have a "beware of dog" door mat. Usually my littlest Schnauzer runs to scream at anyone at the door and the obnoxious salesperson will say "Is this who I am to beware of?" My answer is always "No, it is the 130 lb rottweiler sleeping in my living room." That usually will get either a laugh or more often a slight flinch. We do sometimes dog sit my parents rottie and if I thought we could have one without injuring my blind schnauzer we would. My experience from the 4 family have owned is they aren't mean dogs but they scare the bejeezus out of people! My parents yard crew wouldn't mow the backyard for a year because of Athena, finally they aren't scared of her.