I hope you all had a talk...

First I want to say that sometimes I feel the same way, but luckily my mom loves animals and would never want them outside.

In winter(here anyway--there too I believe, alot of places in Canada) they have radio warnings and everything to NOT leave your pets outside for very long and all kinds of things like that, as alot of times its way too cold.

I also think that animal control or something could take pets away if people leave them out in that weather(especially after radio warnings), and if not, they should be able to.

Also you could bring up that HUMANS could survive living outside, but that doesn't mean we want to!

I also want to add that if she still wants to keep him outside all winter, If *I* were in your position, *I* would definatly try to get him another home before winter, where he'd be inside where he belongs.

I know how hard that would be for you, but you have to think of Major..