"Your" quite the Mensche. In the best meaning.
My questionable dog (still a puppy) is always on the X-Y run (which gives her a complete back yard range).
Moka is a year and a half. Mutt, but she looks like a Goldie. Her littermates looked like various crosses of Sheppard, Goldie, and St. Bernie. Moka was 80lbs at her last vet visit and in perfect health.
If we let her, she'd put a napkin around her neck and sit up at the table with the rest of the family... ;-)
I did the exact same thing too at Farm & Family back when they first came out in the late 90s.
Won’t ever do that again.
The Dobermans of my teen years ran on ‘trolley lines’ in the back yard when I was at school.
When I got home, they ran loose and stayed in the yard.
At night, they went in their kennel runs until the next morning when we’d start all over again.
Summer was the best...I’d jump on my horse and we’d all go running the ridges.
On the back roads, they’d “heel” beside the horse and if a car came, I’d either have them “sit!” under the horse’s belly or run up a bank and sit until the car passed.
They were such good boys.