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Is it ever ok to tie a dog up out in the yard?

If he acts like Cujo, yes.

Only if it’s large enough to fend off coyotes and the large neighborhood bobcat. Lots of unattended pets end up as a missing poster stapled up on sign poles in my area.

I don't know if they enforce it but it's not legal to do here where I live.

We sometimes chain up our dog on a 50' lead. He doesn't seem to mind.

We have a 30 foot wire in our back yard and two dogs get put out. THe elder goes out to take care of business and usually comes right back in. Sometimes he will just lay in the backyard for 10 minutes then bark to come in. The younger girl, Bernese, LOVES to hang outside, even in the dead of winter with lots of snow on the ground. She will hang out in the back yard for an hour 0r 2 at a time before she begs to come in. We never leave either one of ours out unattended.

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Do you take it to work with you?

flashguy

Nope. I work from home several days a week. But the days I’m in the office, k9 is crated. When I’m not home and she isn’t with me, she is crated. When she goes with me, she is in a crate, in the back cab of the truck. She is also worked 350-360 days a year. She has to be worked nearly every day because she is a working breed. Obedience, protection, and tracking trained. She is also trained to shit on a patch of mulch in my backyard and it’s cleaned up every night of the year.

Some people obtain a dog to be a companion, others to give it a job, or both. Then there are people like my ass hole neighbors behind me that just let their 2 dogs out into the backyard for hours, unsupervised and they bark incessantly. They also lunge at the fence when I take my k9 out to work each night. My Mal could kill both of these little mutts and it wouldn’t take long, yet my k9 doesn’t lunge towards them, bark, or anything else. Most people I see with dogs don’t train them at all, and don’t have any business owning an animal. They’re idiots.

Train it and you won’t have to tie it up.

While delivering appliance's in Phoenix/Mesa AZ, I encountered 12 - 15 dogs per week,

the two most impressive and memorable dogs were a Mal and an Australian Shepherd.

The Mal because everybody in the house and yard knew , without a doubt who was in control of the immediate area.

And the A Shep because of his ability to follow the commands . I would pay money to watch them getting trained.

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I think it's acceptable as long as they have enough protective measures from the elements, like shade and water. We used to do it to our dogs when I was a kid, and they never seemed to mind. However as an adult with my own dogs, I've never done it. Don't trust what's out there (2 and 4 legged) that might and can be a threat to their well-being. They're members of the family, just like the bipedal critters.

-MG

They’re also pack animals. Pack animals like to be in a pack. Not tied up on a lead in the yard by themselves.

 
We have a nice set up for the dogs. There is a doggie door (Irish Wolfhound size) set in the wall, which opens into a couple of acres of 6ft fenced yard. They can come and go as they please.