AIBU to leave the house unlocked when my husband is out late?

[PurpleLovecats]

AIBU to go to bed and leave the house unlocked?

I always do this when DH is out late, figure the dog will bark if anyone enters but my friend is horrified!

Just normal handle doors. Turn a key to lock them. Use the handle to open them.

Why would you want an intruder to get past the front door anyways? You can mitigate that by locking the door so there's no need for the dog to bark.

I have locked myself out of the house in the past and the ease of people letting themselves in was shocking enough to make me mindful of locking at every given opportunity.

OP, are you bored? Have you posted this for something to do?

And by the time you've got downstairs, they'll have grabbed your car keys and gone. They're very often the target of a burglary. It's not hard to get what you want quickly if you're a practised thief so I'd try the traditional option of locking the door.

And then what would you do? How would you, a lone woman, being 'up' protect you against several men who have decided to rob your house or worse? You can't expect the dog to fight them all off! What if it's someone the dog knows? Or they chuck a nice sedative enhanced steak to the dog first? Or they have a gun and shoot the dog? Or manage to shut him in one room? All quite unlikely, yes, but so are any burglaries on the scale of things.

It just seems mental to me. Potential negative consequences to not locking the house = absolutely massive, if unlikely. Potential negative consequences to you/DH taking a tiny key with you - literally none?

I would lock the doors personally, you never know in this day and age.

lol ok fair enough, I’m mad! Going to sleep now so will update in the morning if I’ve not been battered in my sleep!

Where abouts do you live that this might be considered normal?

Thanks. For what it’s worth, I think you can do what you like but I agree determined burglars might do something awful to a dog.

What the fuck is wrong with you? Seriously. You come across like you relish the risk. It's unsettling.

If someone was going to burgle a house they'll be prepared for various eventualities, including dogs, and could well kill the poor animal.

Our neighbours in our last house were burgled. The thieves threw a Mars Bar into a room and then locked the dog in there. Neighbours weren’t in btw

Burglary during the day is completely different to one at night where the scum bags know you are in.

There's nothing to update, you seem happy with the arrangement.

I doubt you'd be so careless if you were to wake up in the darkness and could vaguely make out the outline of a male intruder staring down at you in the bed.

Yes, it all seems a bit pointless and 'look at me' doesn't it? It's a bit like driving without a seatbelt on the basis that nothing bad has happened so far.

If you are renting you will get on breach of your tenancy agreement. If you own your home then you will be invalidating your building and contents insurance. And your car insurance.
this totally feels like a fake post to me.

Seems unnecessarily risk-taking. It's not hard to lock the door or to put a key in your pocket when you are out. Give the dog a break!

Pretty grim joke given how common home intrusion is, and violence against women in these situations. Nobody thinks it will happen to them.

That is awful. Chocolate is toxic to dogs. What sort of people were these burglars?

Madness

What happens if the first person to go out is also the first person to get back? Wouldn't they be stuck outside waiting for a grown-up to arrive with keys?

Late teens. The idiots didn’t care. They rampaged through the house and didn’t want any noise

If you ‘always’ do this, why the sudden need to post and ask?!

And do what? I can be up and if an average man walks into my house with ill intent, it'll be highly unlikely that I would be able to protect myself. I'm not even sure I'd be able to fight off a teenage male if it came to it, never mind an adult. I am fit and healthy but I am a 55kg woman and don't possess any weapons or combat skills.

Its, pretty insulting to people who have genuinely been burgled or attacked in their own home, i don't believe a word of it.