by Zev Percowitz

Created on: June 18, 2008   Last Updated: August 02, 2008

Your dog is a reliable friend, right? Well, just leave him for a few days, with someone else taking care of him, and see if he cares as much as you think he does.

Keeping a dog indoors seems nice and more fair than leaving him outdoors, right? Well, guess what? Outdoors he learns to dominate a dog house, while indoors he learns to dominate everything. A dog told that his place is in his dog house will value any additional allowances in much the same way as a child that is restricted in space as to how he can behave and where in the house.

Animals like to dominate what ever they can gain access to...and though my dog is allowed indoors, I can definitely understand why outdoors is more distinctive to his rank as friend.

My dog upon seeing that his needs were being met by a dog walker was not so much bothered by my absence, as I had previously thought. The essential issue with this point of humane treatment is that it is an issue of preference for the dog's caretaker("owner") This is filtered through the human conscience for ones personal regard toward himself. The individual would not appreciate being left outdoors, so he wants his dog to meet with the social rank that he himself enjoys.

Actually, the dog should be allowed to screen the outdoors for his bias of how he disapproves of things and people that are not allowed to trespass on his territory.

Our ability to favor ourself worth in a higher regard of personal space and duty separates us from animals.

An animal needs to surround his environment with habitual and expected results, provided that the environment identifies his sense of scent patterns. The ability to consciously upgrade our behavioral patterns according to our will regardless of scent patterns enables us to be civil and logical. Otherwise we would not hold any human social regard to time and place.

Civilly we must follow a politically correct manner that is societally met with appropriateness and confidence of self worth. Since I am worth the comforts that I afford myself, "why would I wish to leave my dog outdoors and bear a sense of incomplete care for him"? The answer is simply that if you allow this animal to constantly engage (your space) then it is questionably his too and he takes charge of it as he sees fit.

If you don't mind that he will tend to do that then you can allow this to occur. I believe that if your best friend, your dog, is left to the outdoors, then not only will he dominate this area with greater conviction, but he will proudly take charge with greater insistence. If you want your dog to dominate the outdoor environment then you need to allow him to focus his sight, smell, and hearing within this exclusive environment. This will affect him more urgently than giving him a more vague message of indoor inclusion constantly.

When a dog can spread his scent over a more broad range as they frequently do outdoors during a walk, he is assigning himself the right to the territory. Once this assignment is performed, he sets out to take control. After all control is everything. If you lost control of your position at your job you would probably lose it too.

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