I think a certain amount of Outside time is really healthy for dogs. I actually have the opposite issue right now of feeling guility that Oz and Gully are spending too much time Inside.

Murph and Maddie use to get to spend time Outside, while I was at work. I always felt that was much more beneficial to them to get to be Outside watching nature, then cooped up Inside all day. Then when I got home, they were happy, happy to spend time Inside with me. They weren't big barkers at all, so it was never an issue.

With Oz and Gully though, they will bark at people milling around the neighborhood and when they bark it's earth shattering loud. Since I'm too afraid of it annoying the neighbors, they only get to be Outside when I'm home and even then if they start barking, they've gotta come back Inside. I go Outside with them and play everyday and some nights we go for a walk around the neighborhood, but there's only so much Outside time I wanna do, especially if the skeeters are bad. So I know they don't get as much as they'd prefer, but I haven't figured out a way around the issue yet.

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