If you're ever paranoid about locking yourself out of your house, the worst thing you can do is to hide your spare key in an obvious spot, like under the doormat, under a planter, or anywhere near the front door.
One of the most fool-proof ways to hide your keys is to give a copy to a trusted neighbor, family member, or friend who lives nearby. If that isn't possible, you can hide your spare key on the collar of your backyard dog or underneath a planter or door mat—but on a neighbor's front porch, not yours.
For a more DIY, crafty approach to hiding keys, you can create a decoy hiding place out of a real rock, super glue, and a prescription pill bottle. Simply glue the rock on top of the cap of a prescription bottle, place the key inside the bottle and bury it underground so that only the rock is sticking out.
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A "backyard dog"? Like left outside 24-7? If so, that really mean. Dogs are pack animals and need attention, and because we've domesticated them to point of being so dependent on us, love from their humans; even if they have other dogs for company. People who leave their dogs outside 24-7 and think giving them food and water and nothing more is a job well-done should have the animal(s) taken away from them and fined for animal cruelty.
I am so grateful you commented on this. I had to read the phrase "backyard dog" twice to be sure it was what I thought I read. SO NOT COOL to leave your dog outside all the time. While a dog might be in the backyard for a while, it should never be left there all the time.
Sorry. What I really meant, dog that is sometimes in the backyard as opposed to an always indoor dog.
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