"Let me give you the low-down on dogs: they aren’t protection or security.
A dog can be easily tamed usually. Act friendly, give it a few rubs, and they’ll happily follow you around. If that doesn’t work, after my first run-in with an annoying dog (a small, yappy dog), I started carrying rawhide sticks with me. That stopped them very fast."
I worked in security for 20 years and responded to more alarms than I can recall. People do steal electronics and lots of them. Encryption and passwords are easy to bypass with the right knowledge. Most crims aren't stupid. They're not the local crackhead or kid