Good Evening everyone!
Been reading different Sch books lately, as well as different posts on this site:
Some trainers believe in keeping their dogs outside in the kennels, yet others feel that inside is appropriate as well.
Hence here are the questions:
1) Where do majority of people on this web board keep their dogs? and why they chose such
2) how old/young a dog could be before moved outside (I live in Maryland, so climate here is rather soft in the winter time, and pretty hot and humid during summers)
Thanks!
Originally posted by LEON SHRAIBMAN:
1) Where do majority of people on this web board keep their dogs? and why they chose such
2) how old/young a dog could be before moved outside (I live in Maryland, so climate here is rather soft in the winter time, and pretty hot and humid during summers)
Thanks! I can't speak for the majority, but my dogs live in the house. Crated, but in the house.
We have -2- that live in the house. The Akita is crated and the older males GSD has free roam. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
We also have -1- young female GSD that's kenneled outside. ( She does come inside to visit often) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
I like the thought of being with our dogs as much as possible throughout the day. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
Our dogs are family here! During the day they are outside in the kennel area (when they are not on the road with me).
At night they come in the house. When the mozzies are bad, then they are on the screened porch. When it is a rainy day, if we are not playing in the puddles, we are nice and cozy indoors.
The young GSD sleeps in a crate, indoors at night and the other guy sleeps on the porch. (He's a good watchdog!) At the momment they are both sound asleep at my feet. Spoiled and loved! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
REINIER Geel Webboard User Reg: 01-12-2003
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As for living conditions, all my dogs four GSD’s live out side with no kennel, I have a large place and the dogs sleep under the trees and shrubs, rain or hot weather, two of my dogs are psd’s trained and are there to protect the house and family, the Russell terrier lives in side, and sleep in my bed, as a alarm.
My motivation is my dogs must be awake when I sleep, and patrol, all of my dogs have bitten live, South Africa is one of the country’s with the highs crime rates in the world, so my dogs are there to give me time to wake up and pack a gun.
No one I have ever spoken to in all my career has a dog sleeping in a crate here, it’s not sensible or practical, they come through the roof, or poison the dogs, so yes it’s a 50/50 chance. Just around the house my dogs have saved my butt and my neighbors on two occasions where it turned out in to a running gun fight, my wife’s was saved by her dog from being car jacked in my drive way, so yes different strokes for different folks.
Joyce M. Burrows Webboard User Reg: 12-13-2002
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I have five dogs, three of them are GSD's and they all live in the house with me. When I am not at home,the dogs that are not with me are inside. I would not leave my dogs outside if I am not here. To easy for someone to throw something over the fence to them. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
I feel very safe at night with my dogs inside and they are not crated. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
My dogs live in the house - generally, when I'm out the GSD stays with me and the chow mix stays home to watch the house. When they are both left home the GSD is crated (he's 7 months old) and the chow is not. I plan to stop crating the GSD when he is mature enough. It's tough to eat the bad guys from inside the crate <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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