Security system at our Beach Place.
it is a 2nd floor appartment, the building contains 2 upper and 2 groundfloor appartments, surrounded bu Palmtrees etc on 3 sides and the Beach on the otha side.
1 Chihuahua Female who would die for defending her beloved Daddy.
her Bed is located exactly aside my Bed, right aside a Balcony.
1 semi automatic 24/7 cooked on the drawer where i reach it in the Dark without leaving that bed.
our Windows are open 24/7(only Mosquito Screens on windows and on Balcony Door), we do not have metal bars or such.
only one window in the office (it looks on the Stairs before someone would reach the locked frontdoor) and the wide Glassdoors to the big Veranda are closed over night.
Chihuahua barks at night, i have the piece in hand, if she chooses to bark at a specific window or door and i see a shaddow there then i shoot on that thingy. i don't talk to burglars within my property.
the very few false Chihuahua alarms per year did never produce a shadow on any 2nd floor window/door, so no ammunitons wasted. Glass is cheap in DR to replace window-glass.
the costs for such system:
* Chihuahua, Female, small kind(1.00kg after she filled the belly with food), 0.00.- Pesos
* Dogfood for above mentione Guardian, 3x5lbs per year, yearly total of 1.200.- Pesos
* Taurus 380 semi with 3 Mags, 100.000.- Pesos
* 3 packs of 380 shots x50 to keep the Gun moving once in a while, yearly 6.000.- Pesos
* yearly renewal of Gun permit and Carry permit for the 380, 10.000.- Pesos
above described is what i have at our beach appartment. provided by the Landlord we have a watchy walking thru the property at night, he sleeps on our Veranda when nobody sleeps at our place. yearly watching costs are a bottle of Rum, 1.000.- pesos and invitation on christmas even at christmas time, a bottle of Rum and a few pesos for Easter week, once in a while(each maybe 3-5 times per year) a small pack of smokes or a 100.- pesos Claro Card.
til not long ago we had day and night each a watchy, but as most part of the small residency been a short while ago sold to a neighbour, we cut down to just the one guy over night.
on the Ranch:
different hunting rifles in the Rack.
a lil shotgun in the sleeping quarter and a 2nd one in the wooden house at the backyard with the family of Employees that sleep/live there. changing 2-5 stray dogs who get their food daily here. 2 Doberman's used to be in a cage during the days and running free from dusk til dawn, they like 1 dozen of persons(ourselves and the guys living as employees on the ranch), they get fed in the morning only, the strays make the noise, the Dibis seldom bark first, they hit and then bark to let us know they found something, as they know well that they get sweeties for everybody lying beneath 'em when i come out.
til today, without exceptions, the ones found beneath them been drunken neighbours crossing the property in the middle of the night on their way home, they know nothing happens as long as they don't move or try to run once a Dobi took 'em down. it's less than a year that this couple of brotha and sista Dobies are around the house. aside of unimportant scratches barely bleeding, they do a clean effective job.
just that they get lately no more training lessons, as the neighbours choose longer routes over which ever neighbour territory, but not ours, lol.
the Ranch is nothing of luxury, no real value of anything to steal, so some Dogs are sufficient.
if i would have a stand alone property in a City, it would need high walls, 2 big dogs residing out there 24/7, a nasty Chihuahua sleeping aside my bed in there, and some piece on the drawer aside the bed.
with exception of once in a while a few nights at the beachplace, usually no place stays ever abandondend, there is always someone sleeping in there, which is a first effective security preventive action. a dog inside the house, where it can not be poisoned, is the best alarm bell ever. a shotgun, or what ever each personally prefers, aside the bed, is what you use as the last tool if you need to defend your house/family when a burglar tries to enter.
Cameras?
i would be bothered to watch the cameras via the smartphone every time a cat or bird or whatsoever triggers the motion sensor alarm, and anyways, whats it worth to watch that stuff on the smartphone while somewhere else for dinner or drinkets or party etc, while the house is alone? always someone sleeping in your house, is the first rule to effective PREVENTIVE security.
IF they manage to rob my stuff, well, thats gone, no need to watch 'em on TV.
Mike
