re: If you have dogs...

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People who keep dogs in their house have dirty, dog hair covered houses. My dogs live outside, where God intended them to live.

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I have a fleet of robot vacs. 50 weeks a year I empty them once a week.

2 weeks a year I empty them daily.

There is no hair to be found.

shite I probably shed more than the dog.

Outside? Porter thinks outside is his toilet.

Our Great Dane is an inside dog. Of course, she has her own bedroom. Only sleeps on her bed, with her cat.

I used to never let my dogs inside when I lived in Iowa. They were all labs and had a well insulated dog house to live in.

On the coldest of days I could stick my hands in their house and notice how warm it was in the dog house. With proper nutrition, shelter, and exercise they all lived fine in the outdoors.

My Aussie loves to be out in the cold, but not as much as she loves to be with me.

I'm working in the office this a.m. and she's sleeping by my desk.

When it gets warm next week, she's going out with me to work over some water moccasins. She's good at eliminating venomous snakes.

ETA: I'm all for leaving venomous snakes be, but kids go down to a really cool "big rock" creek and the moccasins have been sunning out in that area in big quantities.

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will never understand the current culture with dogs

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It's crazy. And, as seen in this thread, half the idiots literally think that dogs will die if left outside. Think it's a cruel inhumane practice. Hilarious

We had a 65 pound mixed lab/healer that was kept outside mostly. She had a large covered area for shelter and an igloo in which to sleep. However, she hated freezing cold, thunder and fireworks. She slept in the inside laundry room in those situations. Unfortunately, we had to euthanize her last September at age 14 as her health started to deteriorate the prior year, lost her hearing and the final insult was both hind legs became paralyzed. She was a very good dog until her last seconds on earth.

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It's crazy. And, as seen in this thread, half the idiots literally think that dogs will die if left outside. Think it's a cruel inhumane practice. Hilarious

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You can always tell a "dog" person, by the way they smell at work. It's as bad as smokers. They think no one notices, but they smell like the inside of a kennel.

Deflective answer.

I said climate controlled. Comfortable is subjective.

I don't know you, but gun to my head I'd bet you're domicile is equipped with an HVAC system. At the very least you have a window unit.

You're defending a person that says god created dogs with the intent that they stay outside. If we are to be where god intended us to, he should ditch his A/C. Standing by that declaration that god's intent is above all else means forgoing modern comforts unless he wants to be a hypocrite (which we all are).

Obviously I don't expect him to forgo A/C and I don't expect him to bring his dog inside. I just expect people to be reasonable enough to admit that they don't let their dog inside because they don't want to. Don't blame someone else.

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You're defending a person that says god created dogs with the intent that they stay outside. If we are to be where god intended us to, he should ditch his A/C. Standing by that declaration that god's intent is above all else means forgoing modern comforts unless he wants to be a hypocrite (which we all are).

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Uh, you're not differentiating between a dog and a human. You lose.