08-06-2009, 05:55 PM
Do your neighbors have a dog? We had a terrible incident with an ice addict a couple of years ago. He broke into my nearby neighbor's house and passed out under his table with a big knife in his hand that he had stolen from his truck. He had a no-bail warrant out for his arrest. To make a long and scary story short, the police officers told my neighbor and I that we should each get a dog. So I went to the Humane Society and adopted my Rott-mix, Malia. My neighbor got a dog from a friend. I tie Malia up on my porch every night. In the day she's on her dog run on the side of the house near the carport. I would feel safer if I had a fenced yard with a couple of dogs in it though.