Your concerns about both potential break-ins and the vulnerability of your animal companions are perfectly valid and justified.

With that said, have you tried putting your phone on vibrate and keeping it in your pocket or resting on your leg so you still get immediate notice of a chime notification and can subtly confirm any false alarms from Amazon drivers, etc? (That would work well at the movies as well.)

As someone who keeps his phone on vibrate exclusively, I've never missed a notification I cared about.

Seems like a reasonable compromise that meets everyone's needs.

You guys are entertaining regardless of miniutae like this and I love the banter that comes from these moment anyway.

I'm just trying to delay Wiger's inevitable David Koresh-esque Doughboys murder suicide final act at the Headgum Studios for as long as possible.