Originally posted by DogLover9501
My personal opinion is I don't think there is any point in people owning a dog if they are just going to keep it outside.
Exactly.

I volunteer for a rescue group and we never adopt out any of our dogs to people who do not keep them in the house. We advocate crate training, which ALWAYS benficial to the dog. If they're afraid of it, you help them overcome those fears.

If a dog is hyper your job is to wear him/her out, not just turn them loose in the backyard to wear themselves out. Dogs don't wear themselves out, instead they act out in destructive ways.

I have 2 EXTREMELY hyper dogs that I wear out each evening. We go for walks, play fetch (Chetser can do this for about 45 mins), work on tricks and obedience (you'd never know if you met then, though ) and they get lots of chewies, too.