I think you forfiet your right to keep the door open if you feel like it when you get a dog. Reggie and Smokey are your parent's dogs, aren't they? I guess it's OK to leave the door open after you make sure the dogs are in a room where they can't just run out. A fenced in front yard will give them that luxury.
Yes, Reggie and Smokey are more my parents dogs (well at least they feed them lol, I still take care of them most other ways). I don't like *any* dog getting out. We don't live on a very busy street, but there are still cars, and there's still a chance. Smokey has ran off many times....he is fast and he doesn't stop for anything! We can't have a fenced front yard because well...it would look really dumb, lol. Nobody in my neighborhood does. But we have a fenced back yard, which the dogs love.

I hate to be rude, but from everything I hear about your sister, Amy, I think she needs to grow up a bit! She is acting like a child.
Lol lol I can't agree more! She's always been childish, so is her husband....neither one of them will *ever* grow up.

I just think that nobody in my family quite *realizes* what a husky can do. Maybe they should watch him run at full speed in the backyard sometime, and then picture him running at full speed down the street. He only listens to "come" when he feels like it.