It is a worrying trend, this resurgence of rustling. Definitely time I got that application for a shotgun license sent off, I think.
As with some of you others, we live in a very remote area where locked doors are by far the exception rather than the rule. It'd be a shame to see that chance.
I was listening to a program on the wireless the other morning and they were talking about food prices and how the cost of meat is expected to sky-rocket over the next decade or so, turning meat back into the luxury food it once was.