.by toughCookie
quote: by jenluckenbach
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sorry if I sound abrupt, but you lost my support as soon as you said the dog will be left outdoors. I NEVER understood why anyone would take an animal into their family and then exile it to a life away from it's family!
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jenluckenbach
is that what you think I would do?

Well that is what it sounded like. You may notice that I did not say that the dog would not be cared for, I said exiled(left outside, in this case) away from where its familly is. Unless you would be spending time outside with the dog that was EQUAL to the time time that you would be spending inside your house, then it IS bannishment. Let me use an example that will hopefully make my point clearer: Not counting the time we are asleep at home, we are most likely in the house, availbale to our pets for companionship, no less than 6 hours a day. So to be fair to an outside animal, you would need to spend that same amount of time outside in their presence