If someone broke in, middle of the night,is it better for bedroom doors to be open or closed? Kids and adults?

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Anonymous wrote:Just a question for anyone who has pondered this or sadly, experienced it. What was best?

I don’t think it matters “if they’re coming to get you”

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your plan for run, hide, fight? There is no one size fits all response. But it sounds like you’ve experienced some really serious trauma to be asking this question. Personally I’d be working on my middle of the night fire plan before this.

You dont' need to experience past trauma to understand what happening now. I read Fairfax police reports and breaking are up in the last year, some of them are armed. You better have a good plan and your kids should be prepared to follow your plan. Oh, and don't rely on police, they are not very quick to respond due to the stuffing issues.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. I recently saw one of the morning shows or online where someone experienced this and they mentioned calling their children to one bedroom while dialing 9-1-1. That was always their safety plan to get the kids into one bedroom. If you keep all of your doors closed, how does that work?

I don’t see how sleeping w your bedroom doors closed would make it harder for your kids to get into one bedroom? It takes like .5 seconds to open a door.

My plan (and yes, unfortunately, I have experienced a break in before…middle of the night) is to get everyone in my room which has a locking door, lock the door and dial 9-1-1. While on phone w 9-1-1, push/drag dresser in front of door as extra barrier. When we had a break in, we did all of the above and the police arrived within minutes and the person breaking in was easily caught/subdued so as scary as it was, I think we had the best outcome possible.

Where do you live PP? Horrifying. Sorry this happened to you.

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Doors open for optimal HVAC. A closed bedroom door is not going to save you if someone has broken in and made it to the bedroom...

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I sleep upstairs and DH sleeps downstairs. The plan is for him to wake up and shoot the intruder. Sorry not sorry.

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Doors closed- fire is a much greater risk statistically than someone breaking into your home intending to harm your children.

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Anonymous wrote:Doors open for optimal HVAC. A closed bedroom door is not going to save you if someone has broken in and made it to the bedroom...

How does this help the HVAC system?

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Anonymous wrote:I sleep upstairs and DH sleeps downstairs. The plan is for him to wake up and shoot the intruder. Sorry not sorry.

I LOVE this. If there were more people like you and your husband there would be fewer break ins.

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Anonymous wrote:Get a big dog like a lab.

Labs are completely food motivated. Murderer could bring a dog treat and lab would greet him with open arms. Get a big dog like a Leonberger or a Great Pyrenees. No one but the most insane would get pass those dogs.

PP here. I do get what you're saying, but ours (an 80 lb retriever/coonhound mix) has a really deep, scary bark. So many people are afraid to have a really big dog, but I agree with your comments.

Lol we got broken into in DC with a giant dog with a scary bark. I assume they gave him treats. He was fine when we got back; all our stuff was gone.

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Anonymous wrote:Doors open for optimal HVAC. A closed bedroom door is not going to save you if someone has broken in and made it to the bedroom...

But a door might save you from a fire.

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Just get a dog

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I have an 80lb German Shepherd. But sadly all it takes is one piece of beef jerky and she’s a soft snuggle buddy.

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Anonymous wrote:Get a big dog like a lab.

Labs are completely food motivated. Murderer could bring a dog treat and lab would greet him with open arms. Get a big dog like a Leonberger or a Great Pyrenees. No one but the most insane would get pass those dogs.

PP here. I do get what you're saying, but ours (an 80 lb retriever/coonhound mix) has a really deep, scary bark. So many people are afraid to have a really big dog, but I agree with your comments.

Lol we got broken into in DC with a giant dog with a scary bark. I assume they gave him treats. He was fine when we got back; all our stuff was gone.

Yeah, I have a Pyr and unless the bark scares them off, he will do absolutely nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Get a big dog like a lab.

This made me laugh. My two labs bark at everything but they're useless as actual guardian dogs. Hopefully no one will ever test that theory out though. They seem pretty ferocious when you're on the other side of the door I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:Get a big dog like a lab.

This made me laugh. My two labs bark at everything but they're useless as actual guardian dogs. Hopefully no one will ever test that theory out though. They seem pretty ferocious when you're on the other side of the door I guess.

BTW, this is also why we sleep with our doors closed! If we didn't we'd find labs in bed with us all the time.