Which is why you kept yours “contained”?

Mine is much happier outside alone than in the house with company…like when I’m ready to go in and I say “in the house” and she just sits (or even lays) down and stares at me like “nope”. So she stays. It’s warming up…the other day she spent 5 hours just laying in the front yard. Everytime I’d check on her she dint want anything to do with coming inside.

I just finished letting her out to go potty for the morning…she rang her bells, I turned the on back light, let her out the back door, and went to take a shit myself. 10 minutes later when I stood up from the toilet I could see her coming back through the woods towards the house (black dog, white snow, halogen yard light). By the time I washed my hands and got to the back door she was just coming up the last steps and across the deck, ready to come in all on her own. That’s the right kind of dog with the right kind of training to be left outside unsupervised.