Michael Morris, (or anyone else), When we lived in L.A. for a while, I got three dogs to protect the house, and studio(separate building than the house). To get to the studio's only door, or to our back door, one would have to go in the back gate, and through the back yard, where the dogs usually hung out. For the entire time we lived there, ours was the ONLY house that wasn't burgled! ..and this was in a 'pretty good' neighborhood. L.A. sucks! Thank God I'm out of that armpit of America!