Where is your dog(s) when you're at work?
Hi all,
Just wanted to ask, where your dog is when you're at work (assuming you work outside of your home)...
Loose in the house?
Crated in the house?
In outside kennel?
Doggy Daycare?
With you at work?
I am currently unemployed, so I am at home all day, but try to always get in sessions where Eowyn is alone, so she is used to the fact that I am not always there. When I get a job I'd like one, where I can bring my dog, but this is very uncommon in Denmark, so I do not dare to hope Eowyn will probably be in an outside kennel...
Just wanted to ask, where your dog is when you're at work (assuming you work outside of your home)...
Loose in the house?
Crated in the house?
In outside kennel?
Doggy Daycare?
With you at work?
I am currently unemployed, so I am at home all day, but try to always get in sessions where Eowyn is alone, so she is used to the fact that I am not always there. When I get a job I'd like one, where I can bring my dog, but this is very uncommon in Denmark, so I do not dare to hope Eowyn will probably be in an outside kennel...
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How often do you give them potty breaks?
I've actually been contemplating where to put a second dog if I add one to the family. I also have a really nice outdoor kennel with a roof and an insulated doghouse in it but the weather is so cold in the winter and so hot in the summer here in Reno, that I've never actually used it for Panda.
I have a very solid metal kennel that locks, so they'd have to really work for it, plus my akita barks at strangers as does my GSD A LOT! So guests are always warned, and unless I eventually move out to the middle of nowhere, the nabours would hear it.
I'm going to be replacing the fence here as soon as the weather warms up, and I'm thinking of putting a sectioned-off dog run along the side of the house. My only concern is if I want my dog left outside while I'm not there, especially since I have a psycho neighbour who has already threatened to "beat the s#!t out of" Rakka because she barked at him. The side where the run would be would be on the opposite side, out of view from my neighbour, though. I've also been considering surveillance cameras. It seems there are some that are quite affordable, and that would deter people from trying anything. Then, there's the possibility that I may have to prove that she's NOT a nuisance barker, so the camera would be handy for that, too. Said psycho neighbour has already filed a complaint claiming that my dog was left in the yard barking all hours of the night (total BS, I never leave Rakka outside at night and she's not a nuisance barker). It didn't go anywhere, because it turns out no one else in the neighbourhood knew anything about this mystery nocturnal barking (surprise surprise) and if there had been barking, there are plenty of people who would have heard it, and given his other bogus complaints (whole 'nother story), the cops basically told him to stop lying.
Doesn't really seem worth it, I guess, but I would like her to be able to hang out outside. Especially when I get another dog, I'd like them to be able to play outside and entertain each other while I'm gone.
Now once I get home and feeding time starts, hana is crated in the garage for the night and taro and sammi stay out on the back porch while koyuki sleeps with either me or my kids, depending on her mood.
Sounds like a really nasty nabour you've got there... Surveilance cameras would make sure that you can prove your point, but it is rather drastic. At least for me, since almost nobody has surveilance in Denmark... But it is nice to be sure that you are on the safe side, and it sounds to me like your other nabours would support your version of the story.
But I would also be insecure about leaving my dog outside if my nabour had threatened to beat the cr*p put of her!! Some people are sick in the head!
Seems like Mika has got it the wrong way, isn't he supposed to destroy stuff when you can't see him? Haha... Oh well, makes it easier I guess.
For now at least I cannot leave Eowyn roaming in the house because she will pee or poo anywhere she pleases, when she pleases, she does NOT hold it. And she will chew on anything! XD So it will be crate or kennel with something she is allowed to chew on
I built an outdoor kennel when I moved to this house, and used it for a couple months, but I have a nasty neighbor who complains about everything, so I moved the dogs indoors. The kennel has now become a storage shed lol. All that work for nothing. And now, my house is full of hair. Shedding season is upon us.
If we are out running errands or something we will usually take a few dogs, usually pups and an adult like Blue or Ahi.
Toby is in the sunroom, which is an unheated room, but it's warmer than outside. He has his chair in there and a dog bed too, and he doesn't seem to mind it at all. Oskar used to be in his giant cage with Bel free in the house, but since she's been recovering from her surgery, she's in the cage and Oskar has free reign in the house. He hasn't destroyed anything, except for the time I forgot to put my slippers in the closet.
eta: oh, and I'm a professor, so I only go into to work 2-3 a week, and am rarely gone more than 6 hours at a time, so most of the time, someone is home with them, and they get to rotate between being outside, in the sunroom or upstairs, and in the downstairs with the humans. Oskar sleeps upstairs with us too, and Bel and Toby sleep downstairs, one crated (Bel at the moment)
By your theory Eowyn should be okay for 6 hours, but I don't think she would be. If she has no water, she wouldn't have anything to pee from ofcourse, but 6 hours in a car without water? Naaaah...
Her upbringing does make a difference I believe, she lived outdoors till she was 5 months, so she never had to hold it, ever...
On the way home from her breeder, she did good in the car for 4 hours, but she refused to drink, so that may have something to do with it.
I do take Kuma for rides in the car. Even if it is just errands as he loves the car and it is more fun that being at home. Sachi is a bit car phobic because she still gets very car sick. But for short trips she is okay.
Bailey is crated, obviously. He seems to be great about being house trained, but he is ridiculously high energy and I bet would be destructive after a bit of being left alone. Not to mention I would be very afraid that Bella would eat him if unattended.
Bel likes to ride but doesn't like to wait in the car, and she doesn't like strangers (in her mind everyone is a stranger) so she doesn't want to get out of the car anywhere either. Oskar hated the car for a long time (I guess the trip from Oregon as a pup traumatized him? *lol*) but now he gets in on his own (finally) and seems to enjoy short rides, but gets a little anxious if he has to wait in the car.