hi scorpio,my dogs are all kept outside i do occasionally bring one in ,if she is sick,we kept one of our studs in the house but he kept breaking out to be with the kenneld dogs,mine have huge runs and a huge shed,all heated,with heat lamps if the weather gets server,they have under floor heating,(we dont)im with them as often as your with a house dog,there out every day running in 1 acre of garden,there better looked after than me,the pups come up to the house,the kids play with them,if they wasnt to be looked after i wouldnt keep them,i had the dogs longer than my kids and there not enough room in the house to keep12 dogs and there fore id rather they were out,when there out playing they all run in the house have a nosey and back out again,there happy dogs,and i say its what a dog is used to i,would take a house dog and put him outside if he wasnt happy its just not fair,

sorry the is in relation to Scorpios post not anyone elses lol!
Becky

I agree totally, its those that leave them outside in all weathers with no regard to their comfort/well being or stimulation that bug me, I wonder why on earth they have them in the first place.

A friend of mine, who has a heart of gold and would do anything for you, has 9 dogs that live in a converted garage. She works full time (not demeaning her for that, most of us have to work), but she doesn't see them from one day to the next, she just throws kibble at them when she thinks they need it, they all live in separate partitions with a small run, about the size of a small cupboard and there is no heating or any blankets in their beds. So they can't even cuddle up together when it's cold. She tells me mine are pampered and that missing the odd meal never does a dog any harm. Well it would kill mine I'm sure, they wouldn't survive how her dogs do (they are GSD's and Australian Shepherds). Even when she is not at work she isn't with them, she probably spends one evening a week with them to groom them etc., most weekends she is out either watching dog shows or attending seminars. I have told her my thoughts but she just thinks I'm weird in the way I treat mine, she has twice come home to find a dead dog in a run, both of them relatively young, she also came home to find her younf GSD bitch had whelped, of 8 pups only 3 survived because she continued to go off to work and just left the bitch and the pups to fend for themselves, no extra food, heating anything. Its people like that, who call themselves dog lovers that really get my goat.

Its people like that, who call themselves dog lovers that really get my goat.

That is appalling - such active breeds too Can't you talk her into rehoming them? Why on earth does she have dogs at all?

I did wonder, horrific isn't it. I've offered so many times to help her out, to go round during the day and feed them, change their water but she won't have any of it, she's set in her ways and doesn't want me interfering. I asked if I could at least look after the GSDbitch for her, not in my home as she doesn't know me but to go round and check on everything but again, she said no because I would just upset everyone.