re: If you’re not bringing your dogs inside, or making arrangements for them in this cold,

You are afcking idiot

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TygerLyfe

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You should go live outside.

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Dogs have fur for this very reason (cold). Of course people should bring them inside or make accommodations for them if left outside. But they are literally built (or at least semi-built) to withstand weather. Not sure we need to wish death upon people.

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Every Lab I have ever been around fricking LOVED cold weather and cold water...ice covered cold water. They love it....and it is impressive until you have seen a Chessie in the same conditions and worse then you understand that Labs merely enjoy cold and ice....Chessie's require it at a DNA level. I have seen duck dogs of all stripes frozen nearly solid and I have never known one to complain about it a bit....quite the opposite as a matter of fact, they are LIT up when it is cold and there are birds about. I don't know that any Lab I was ever around had ever been cold....even when covered in ice and sitting in 33 degree water they are panting and willing to do it for hours and hours. It is not some sort of loyalty that drives them to do it, they are loyal but they balk at taking pills because they don't like taking pills. They would balk at being cold if they did not enjoy being cold.

My dogs have a fur coat, not sure bout yours

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Why would you have a dog in the first place if you're just going to leave it outside?

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The euphoric feeling of "rescuing a dog" but then shortly afterwards realizing that dogs are a lot of work after they shite on your carpet for the 100th time.

some dogs definitely LOVE the cold weather. And sure the OP was making too broad of a justification.

But a large number of current domesticated dogs aren't built for <20 degree weather full time. Especially dogs in the deep south who end up adapting more to oppressive heat. And just because a dog loves the cold for a couple of hours doesn't mean it will love it for 10 hours.

Double-coat animals can tolerate it a lot more.

Not that I keep my dog outside in the cold, but one of my labs, when the river was up, would lay in the water when it was in the 20’s outside the camp.

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Why would you have a dog in the first place if you're just going to leave it outside?



The euphoric feeling of "rescuing a dog" but then shortly afterwards realizing that dogs are a lot of work after they shite on your carpet for the 100th time.

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You're right. Most humans aren't responsible enough to have pets.Too narcissistic.

Social engineering is a bitch (pun intended).

My husky gets horny when temps drop into the teens.

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Humans survived without it. You should try it.

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They also died without it. Kinda a weird argument. We invented it because it sucked not having it.