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Sure glad to know Tink is going to be okay!

[Roxyluvsme13]

Thank you I'm sorry everybody is mad about me at Roxy, but It's not my fault! I BEGGED AND BEGGED! and I really wish she and Tink could both live inside...For the Latest on Tink, I made a new Thread...
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=90640
Thanks For All The Support...but Really about Roxy...Is it REALLY my fault? I'm only 13...gosh...Sadly it's my moms decision

[shais_mom]

You are right and I really don't think people are holding YOU responsible. I don't. I know that your mom is the adult in the equation and its her decision. Growing up myself we had an outside dog. He was never tied tho. He had full run of the 3 acres of my parents place. And a doggie door and nice warm dog house with lots of blankets in it to keep him warm in the winter and in the summer HE pulled the blankets out. He really had it good in there in the summer b/c we didn't have a/c at the time and it was cooler in the garage the our house. The people here are just frustrated with the situations and uneducation of people like your mom that makes the animal live in this situation.
And just b/c lots of dogs around where you live have that kind of life doesn't make it right or doesn't make it better for people to accept. A lot of dogs around here are like that too and it still pi$$es me off.
That said there are a TON of outside cats also and it still irks me also.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Well Roxy loves being outside, and if she was put inside in our actual house she would go insane. I would love for her to live inside, but at least in bad weather she gets to come in the laundry room. Which is a nice and warm place especially in cold weather or rain. Roxy seems perfectley happy outside, i mean she grew up living outside...and AT LEAST my mom lets her come inside in bad weather....

[Jadapit]

I really dont know a whole lot about the boxer breed I do know that pit bulls are people dogs. They love, love being with their owners. They are also a high engery dog. I hope for Roxy's sake that you at least take her out and walk her every day. She deserves that. I dont think any dog should have to live on a chain.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Of course she gets walked! I'm not going to make her stay on a chain all day...she is very high energy, and so are boxers...that combination in a house dog is not good...inside she didnt have room to run, and shes not housetrained...

[shais_mom]

fall break

1) Sorry that I came across harsh over the school thing.. Fall Break - that's cool.
now for

Roxyluvsme13 Of course she gets walked! I'm not going to make her stay on a chain all day...she is very high energy, and so are boxers...that combination in a house dog is not good...inside she didnt have room to run, and shes not housetrained...

2) ENOUGH! STOP! STOP! and Like I said in my previous Post STOP! you are backtracking - "what's wrong with chaining? Oh I know chaining is wrong."
Stop using the excuse of 'it happens everywhere around here' that does NOT make it right. Just b/c 5 people jump off a bridge b/c its what happens around here doesn't mean that the 6th person does it!

3) That is BULLS---! I know plenty of people that have pits in the house and that have boxers in the house. Maximus is a Lab/pit mix and he's very much in the house. That sounds like an excuse your mom has used and you believe her.

[CagneyDog]

Of course she gets walked! I'm not going to make her stay on a chain all day...she is very high energy, and so are boxers...that combination in a house dog is not good...inside she didnt have room to run, and shes not housetrained...

Shes no a large dog!

You said she got walked once a week on the chat. That isn't nearly enough for a dog that is living on a chain! She would adapt to living inside and the only reason she doesn't like it, is because she never has been a house dog! She would become house trained if you tried!!!

Imagin how she feels, now that you have a new dog and she is left outside!

and that your dog should only be chained when your supervising it

You are not supervising her all the time!

[lv4dogs]

You are right and I really don't think people are holding YOU responsible. I don't. I know that your mom is the adult in the equation and its her decision. Growing up myself we had an outside dog. He was never tied tho. He had full run of the 3 acres of my parents place. And a doggie door and nice warm dog house with lots of blankets in it to keep him warm in the winter and in the summer HE pulled the blankets out. He really had it good in there in the summer b/c we didn't have a/c at the time and it was cooler in the garage the our house. The people here are just frustrated with the situations and uneducation of people like your mom that makes the animal live in this situation.
And just b/c lots of dogs around where you live have that kind of life doesn't make it right or doesn't make it better for people to accept. A lot of dogs around here are like that too and it still pi$$es me off.
That said there are a TON of outside cats also and it still irks me also.

Well said.

[luvofallhorses]

I agree with shais_mom...we're not holding YOU responsible. I just wish your mom would let Roxy AND Tinkerbelle live inside. I really don't think it matters if she loves being outside or not. Dogs belong with us, not outside. Again, I don't think you're the one at fault.

[Roxyluvsme13]

I know...I tried convincing her...but I'll admit...at one very point in time when we first got Roxy, she DID live inside. It was only for about a month, but omg Roxy tore up EVERYTHING! she tore up my moms blinds, and some other important stuff, and thats probably another reason. (We moved out of the house that she stayed inside in temporarily) Our landlord probably doesnt want Roxy to stay inside either (we dont own our house we're renting it) I wish there was SOMETHING I could do

[luvofallhorses]

I know...I tried convincing her...but I'll admit...at one very point in time when we first got Roxy, she DID live inside. It was only for about a month, but omg Roxy tore up EVERYTHING! she tore up my moms blinds, and some other important stuff, and thats probably another reason. (We moved out of the house that she stayed inside in temporarily) Our landlord probably doesnt want Roxy to stay inside either (we dont own our house we're renting it) I wish there was SOMETHING I could do

That is what dogs do, especially puppies. What if Tinkerbelle were to do this stuff??

[Roxyluvsme13]

Tink almost knocked over a very very expensive candle stick holder thingy, and...I moved the candlestick, Idk what my mom would do, but certainly not place her outside...Roxy though is kinda big...and my mom just doesnt like biger dogs in the house...Idk seriously why Roxy cant stay inside...