Y'all bring your pets inside tonight

Chock Full o' Nuts wrote:

xteacher wrote:

Code2High wrote:

Jean S wrote:
Our dogs (and cats when we had them, too) always had a dog door and went inside the house or out as they pleased. The Bernese Mtn Dog and the German Shepherd.loved the cold. Some of the others hated it. Still, they had the choice to shelter inside or not. I am not sure how that will work out in the motorhome with the bichon.

If you're fulltiming in various locations, it won't. You'll leash the dog and walk it outside, every time. Bichons are snack size. Unless you are absolutely certain of what wildlife does and does not live in the area, letting snack dogs out alone is an invitation to tragedy.

I agree! Even at home, with a fenced in yard, in a suburban area, we watch our yapper dogs, b/c sometimes hawks will start circling when they're outside. The dogs are a bit too big for a hawk, but the hawk might try anyway (shudder...).

Exactly why I go out with our Bichon, Tiki. We live in the suburbs but I have seen falcons and hawks swoop in a pick up squirrels and rabbits out of my yard. We have a fence, which keeps out other predatory animals, like coyotes or other, bigger dogs but the fence does nothing to prevent an aerial attack. :E

FYI... a coyote can go over a six foot fence like it wasn't even there.

Another reason to go out with the midgets. I do let mine out during the day with the big dogs, as I figure it would be a pretty crazy coyote to jump in there with Hal and Zig.