Our friends claim to be animal lovers. In fact, their only dog at the time was in their wedding (it was really cute) but he is an elderly very laid back hound dog. Since then they inherited her father's German Shepard and adopted one of Snicker's puppies, now almost 3 years old. These two are supposedly too much for them to handle inside with a 3 year old child so they are kept outside in kennels. I will say the kennels are good sized so they have room to move around and they do check their food and water a few times a day and play with them so, while I don't agree, I can't really say anything.
Now, this is what cracks me up. When it was really cold this winter instead of putting them in the house, or at the very least the garage they paid to have them housed at a heated kennel! I mean, I can understand if you don't have any other option for shelter but come on!! They have a two car garage! (BTW, these are the same people that keep complaining about how fast they went through their inheritance.)
Maybe I just don't understand the concept of outside dogs. To me, my dogs are my kids as much as my cats are. Mine are outside in the yard as long as they want to be, but they always have a warm place to sleep in our house. What hurts the most is we gave them one of the dogs and she really don't know what a family is, unlike her mother and sister. Am I wrong to think this is not a good thing? I mean, they get food, water, attention and get to sleep in a heated "hotel" but it's not the same as a family to me.
Now, this is what cracks me up. When it was really cold this winter instead of putting them in the house, or at the very least the garage they paid to have them housed at a heated kennel! I mean, I can understand if you don't have any other option for shelter but come on!! They have a two car garage! (BTW, these are the same people that keep complaining about how fast they went through their inheritance.)
Maybe I just don't understand the concept of outside dogs. To me, my dogs are my kids as much as my cats are. Mine are outside in the yard as long as they want to be, but they always have a warm place to sleep in our house. What hurts the most is we gave them one of the dogs and she really don't know what a family is, unlike her mother and sister. Am I wrong to think this is not a good thing? I mean, they get food, water, attention and get to sleep in a heated "hotel" but it's not the same as a family to me.