God, I love people like you :) Your wonderful dog sounds perfectly happy in the open, that’s where he chooses to be, and y’all have made it his home. I’m so glad God led him to you. I think dogs are God’s perfect creature!
I agree. If we hadn’t had inside cats that were very elderly I might have tried to acclimate her to ‘inside’. We didn’t think it was fair for the cats though and might have driven the doggie nuts besides. She found us one December. We walked out on the driveway to a whimpering, limping, obviously emaciated dog. :( Mean people suck.
She had deer meat (cooked) last night though. She smelled it when I walked out of the house and started the whimpering/begging noises LOL.
I’d actually like her to be an inside/outside dog. But she’s happy where she is. Lots of shade in the summer and cool grass to roll around in. And a nice warm bed in her shelter in the wintertime. I dust her with flea stuff periodically and we keep fresh DE in her bed. She doesn’t really scratch that we can tell. And I’m not eaten up with fleas when I’m out there with her either. So we’re big big fans of the DE. I use the food grade stuff though, so it’s a bit spendier than the other stuff. I can’t rave enough about the DE.