Our hunting dogs have lived outside (with shelter) and inside for years. Both are gone now, after long, happy lives; we haven’t decided whether to get more, as we don’t hunt as much as we used to when our boys were still here at home.
A coyote could’ve attacked any of them over the years, and my FIL’s dog WAS in a dust-up with coyote a number of years ago and survived it, though with numerous stitches and a new-found respect for coyotes, LOL!
I guess according to this dopey author, I’m eeeeeeeeevil because I dispatched the raccoon that killed five of my chickens? Piffle!
Get out of the office once in a while, Sweetheart. There’s a whole ‘Big, Bad Natural World’ out there that you can only imagine. And it’s more vicious and heartless than any ‘bleeding-heart scenario’ you can cook up, LOL!
Well, yeah...Who cares about your poor chickens? ;)(kidding) My husband's grandmother took care of lots of woodchucks, raccoons and other assorted creatures that got into her garden, she didn't use a butterfly net either. I think it was a .22. She was in here 80s.
This Boulder-based Sinapu Carnivore group are even extreme for the Boulder area.
Sled dogs sleep outdoors in Alaska, Colorado...all the time.