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An old trick that I used for years on patrol was to stretch a strand of thread across a choke point or bottleneck of your area that you have to protect. Then all you have to do is check the intersections for broken thread. I used this even to protect narrow alleyways behind businesses. Burglars and sneak thieves won't notice breaking a thread stretched across at shin level and all you have to do is periodically check if your threads are intact.

An alternative is to get a small chihuahua. A burglar that I had caught once told me that they are as alert as a large dog but they dance away when you try to catch them and THEY NEVER SHUT UP! Good qualities in a guard dog alert system.

Outdoor alert systems that I have encountered in 20 years as a LEO include using peacocks and guinea fowl as outdoor alarms. Drug dealers along the SW Border area would use these as an alternative to an electrical alarm to protect their stash houses. After a while, that was one of the dead giveaways that a dealer was storing a major cache of drugs in a location - noisy large birds!

BEAR Repellent is the same ingredient as people pepper spray only more concentrated. The concentrated agent is Oleoresin Capsicum. Oleoresin Capsicum is extracted from chili peppers and is the chemical that gives peppers their hot quality. That is why it is called pepper spray. Also, Oleoresin Capsicum is known as “OC” for short. That is why pepper spray is commonly referred to as OC pepper spray.