Do you leave your dog(s) in your yard when no one is home?

[DCluver33]

Originally Posted by frillint1

I don't leave my dog unattended. He is a smart butt and taught himself how to unlock the gate. Or he will just dig. Silly husky in him.

my ex boyfriends husky would dig out of his yard all the time. Once i caught her walking down the street luckily I had my dogs with me so she came right to my car. I told him they dig and are escape artists and find any way out to go run and roam, and he didnt' listen to me lol go figure

[Dennq]

My dogs are in the house when I leave but when Im home they have a small secure five foot high fenced area to play in. The nice thing about having three dogs is when my GSD pup Ranger feels like getting into mischief he just torments my other two. It's a hoot watching them play. Thats why I have a pack of dogs.
He is so tired at the end of the day he snores as he is doing right now lol.

I wouldn't think of letting them all roam my 25 acres. If they started running a deer who knows where they would end up.

And then there's the coyotes...

[frillint1]

I had to pad lock the door so he wouldn't unlatch it himself. We had to place large cinder blocks around the cage and he would still get out. He was an escape artist like all the sites say about huskies lol. Luckly now he's older and don't care to get away he just wants to be by me.

[selzer]

About a week ago, I left Babsy in my bedroom lying on my bed. Normally everyone is kenneled, but sometimes Babsy is allowed to be inside when I am gone. (She likes my bed.)

She had not finished her food, so I left the baby gate to the room open. The room was built by me (and my contractors) for the dogs. The room has two doggy doors to two separate kennels, crates, dog stuff, etc. It also has two doors to the outside -- one with a doggy door to Joy's kennel, the other to Near Field.

Well, I came home that night and went to take care of the dogs and the door was WIDE OPEN!!!! Not only did Babsy trapes through the yard, and into my house and up onto my bed. But the door left wide open, let a hoard of nasty flies into the house, and who knows if any mice or rats. Babsy did not challenge my fencing in near field. But it goes to show that my dogs are SAFER kenneled than in the house.