Best Places to Keep Your Pepper Spray.

Effective home defense with pepper sprays depends on four factors: placement and immediate availability of a pepper spray, the ability to retreat to a "safe place" and call fro help, development of a defence plan that include all residents and practice of the planned response.

Where you keep your pepper spray in your home is important. The faster you can get it, the better your chances of stopping an intruder or driving him away. Walk through your home asking, "where would and intruder enter?" and "Where should I place the pepper sprays so I can get them quickly?"

The two primary locations to consider are by your bedside and by main entrances. If the pepper spray must be kept away from small kids, you can place it on a nearby closet shelf. Pepper sprays near main doors can also be a problem if you have kids, but that's easily solved with a small patch of sticky-sided velcro. If someone tries to force his way in, you simply pull the pepper spray off the door, step back and spray the intruder.

The size and type of your home are also important. An apartment, for instance, with only one door and two windows on a second floor is much easier to defend than a sprawling ranch home with three of four doors and several windows. In a smaller residence you need one or two pepper sprays but in a larger house you should consider buying three or four sprays and place them near all entrances and at your bedside.

And keep in mind that for home defense the best pepper spray is a fogger because the fog tends to hang in the air and you can use these several minutes of undisturbed air to safely escape from the house. Here are fogger models we have: Pepper Shot Fogger Spray and Mace Triple Action Fogger Spray.