XPost: rec.pets.dogs.behavior   
   From: janet@bestfriendsdogobedience.com   
      
   On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:19:08 -0500, diddy    
   wrote:   
      
   I wrote:   
   > I can't think of why I'd need my dogs   
   >> to be outside for 15 minutes without supervision, but one would get   
   >> really bored and bark to come in, the other would just hang out -   
   >> different dogs.   
   >>   
   Diddy:   
   >I can. It was a gorgeous day outside yesterday. I left the kitchen door   
   >open so the dogs could come and go as they pleased while I did some   
   >painting. (Helps to fumigate paint fumes too)   
   >The two elkhounds spent most of the day playing/wrestling and generally   
   >sniffing around.  They spent time basking in the sun. Had I forced them to   
   >be with me, they would have been sitting on the floor with me.  I feel   
   >their unsupervised voluntary outside time was far more beneficial to them   
   >than being forced to mommy sit while i tried to keep them out of the   
   >paint.. JMO   
      
      
   Am I speaking greek or something?  What part of *I don't need* is not   
   understood?  I'm not FORCING my dogs to be inside - if the door is   
   left wide open, Lucy would be inside anyway.  Franklin in and out,   
   which is fine with me, or fine if he stays out as well.  Not MY need.   
   That's all my statement said.   
      
   I don't do painting with fumes - bad for me as well as the dogs!   
      
      
      
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