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Someone is trying to get in to our house

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piscofrisco · 15/12/2023 13:36

....it started in summer. I came in through the door, shut it behind me and put my keys down on the side. Went to go out later and the keys were gone. The car was still there on the drive. Two days later Iwa idly scrolling through Facebook and saw them on our local towns lost and found type forum. They had been found on a bus in an area of town that I have never been to.
We had a lot of people doing work on our house last year after a huge house fire. Any number of them could have copied the key.
We changed the locks and although very freaked out, just kind of carried on as usual.
A few months later dh was away with three of our kids. I was at home with dd1. We distinctly heard someone try they handles on all three our our exterior doors. The dogs were going off it. We were terrified. We called dh who thought we were winding him up. We told the police who said there was nothing we could do bar put a camera up. We duly installed a ring doorbell.
A few months passed with no incident until this past few weeks. Dh and I both laid up with Covid. In the lounge with the blinds shut. Someone aggressively knocked on the window right behind us. When we looked there was no one there and no one showed up on the ring camera (which shows the whole front driveway).
And now today. I'm
Wfh and I could hear someone rattling the side door handle. Dogs going mad. I thought it was dh back early and not taken his key. Went to look-no one there. Dh is at work still.
Ring camera is charging up so not on to check.
I am now pretty nervy when in the house on my own. I'm going to work from Starbucks this afternoon.
We have a sort of granny flat thing in the back garden which I daren't look in.
The police basically said just keep your doors locked.
What else can we do?

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Chilicabbage · 18/12/2023 10:28

Dymaxion · 18/12/2023 09:15

How big is your garden ? could you fit a couple of geese in ?

goose GIF

😂 I assume there is back story of your encounter with some geese

piscofrisco · 18/12/2023 10:45

I probably could fit a few geese in. Or maybe even an attack goat! Grin

We are having some cameras put up on back and side and front of house between Christmas and new year. And the security neighbour did a bit of poking about and found out gate used to be electric and more of a security gate than we thought it was so he's going to see if he can wire it back in which will hopefully save us a few bob.

No further incidents over the weekend. I'm in on my own today wfh and will be in alone til late tonight as dh is out on a client dinner and both DD's are at work til 10.30 and I'm feeling a bit on edge but I suppose we just have to crack on and deal with things if and when they happen.

Training the dogs to be fearsome didn't go well. I came in from the school run and neither of them even bothered to get up 🙄

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Dymaxion · 18/12/2023 10:54

@Chilicabbage a friend used to keep them and they were terrifying until she showed me how to handle them, she also had an attack goat @piscofrisco Grin

piscofrisco · 18/12/2023 11:01

@Nanaof1 sorry missed the question-it was found when we were doing some work to the panelling in the living room which was listed but also riddled with wood worm (again that sounds posh but it wasn't really-it was just one half of a very old-built in 1475-pub). The had to take the newer panelling off to get to the ends of the older panelling and it revealed as sort of box space between the chimney and the wall and there she was. So she was exhumed (is that that right word) and then we had to put it all back the same due to the listing.

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piscofrisco · 18/12/2023 11:01

I've always wanted a goat. But dh wants a garden and I'm not sure the two are always compatible!

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dawngreen · 18/12/2023 11:04

We used to have pet geese they make a good alarm deterrent.

Nanaof1 · 18/12/2023 11:44

piscofrisco · 18/12/2023 11:01

@Nanaof1 sorry missed the question-it was found when we were doing some work to the panelling in the living room which was listed but also riddled with wood worm (again that sounds posh but it wasn't really-it was just one half of a very old-built in 1475-pub). The had to take the newer panelling off to get to the ends of the older panelling and it revealed as sort of box space between the chimney and the wall and there she was. So she was exhumed (is that that right word) and then we had to put it all back the same due to the listing.

Thank you for the update. That would have freaked me out until I found out how long she had been in there and how she died.

I like the geese and attack goat idea. Wiring up the gate is also a good idea, though not as fun as the geese and attack goat idea. Getting the cameras (hopefully hard-wired), will be the best way of feeling safe.

I hope you spend the evening with perfect peace and quiet with no new bothers.
We had a dog once, a Norfolk Terrier, and she would have licked an intruder to death and peed on their foot, if she wanted to be bothered at all, that is.

GerriKellman · 18/12/2023 12:14

@piscofrisco probably a bit late as you're getting more security installed, but as well as our Ring doorbell/camera we have a Ring alarm, which was really the main reason I wanted it. Alarm itself is mouned outside then sensors in the front and back doors, downstairs windows and garage, and indoor censors in the hallways but it's kind of up to you how you do it, you can buy additional censors. You can set it to Home as well as Away mode if you're nervous.
I put mine on Home mode at night when DH is away for extra peace of mind.

RandomMess · 18/12/2023 14:19

Alpacas are very protective and "herdy", may be less destructive to the garden than security goat?

AngryBirdsNoMore · 18/12/2023 17:28

I suggest security geese. Bloody loud, bloody territorial and often bloody aggressive.

Shelby1981 · 23/12/2023 06:47

elfies · 16/12/2023 03:13

A friend used to keep a tray of her childhood marbles behind the door when she was sleeping in the house alone .

Isn't that from Home Alone? Grin

TortolaParadise · 10/08/2024 07:55

Has anything strange happened this year?

JFDIYOLO · 10/08/2024 09:38

Your neighbour specialises in home security systems, you say?

And since this happened ... they're doing you a quote?

Sounds like a job for Whitstable Pearl

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