It has been an exhausting day for all of us. Pudding has spent the day on our bed as she can't get into the bathroom to her space, the other dogs have been clingy, and we've have police and forensic guys here. Apparently the burglars were pros...they wore gloves and knew exactly what kind of stuff to take. The only reason we didn't lose more, it seems, is that we came home after they had tossed the place and pocketed the small stuff, but before they could find a way to get the bigger stuff out.
You see, they chipped the putty out of a stationary window and removed the glass and crawled through the opening. It allowed them in, but didn't give them a way to get big things like the TVs and such out. We have bars on all the windows that can be opened (fire is not a big issue here with our masonry homes), but these guys took a window pane out of the window frame to get in...and did it with gloves on. They left a drawer full of DVDs, CDs, fragile collectibles (like a Waterford Crystal clock worth more than the SD card reader they took).
The police theorize we came into the house as they were starting to remove the larger items...the big screen TV was in the hall at the bottom of the stairs and the smaller TV was on the floor next to the open window.
Our insurance company sent a glazier out at 1 in the morning to put in a new glass pane and at 9 this morning the man who made our iron balconies came to measure up for window guards in our master suite and to beef up our security door...they kicked in the security door at the top of the stairs and these guys know what is still in the house so we are concerned they may come back.
And Puddin'? She slept through the whole thing...she even slept through the night! She is just the cutest thing on four legs!! |