On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:04:17 +0000, Bod wrote:

Where I live I [...] have even left the front door wide open on hot
summer days many times whilst we went shopping for an hour or so.

Are you not worried at least about animals? (Cats, dogs, mice, rats,
raccoons, skunks, pigeons, snakes, mosquitos, wasps, crickets, ants, etc.)