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In the US, people tend to look at me weird when I tell them my dog lives outside. Some of them probably think I’m a heartless or uncaring dog owner.

When I first adopted him, I tried inside first, and he was unhappy and anxious, and so much of that went away when he was chillin outside.

I think humans often wrongly project their own preferences onto dogs.

Totally normal in the country, in the US. No fence or anything, either, if you’ve got enough land.

Not saying it is your case, but I want to add:

I think it also depends on the mental stimulation. Hiking I see many country houses big gardens. The dogs in them are rarely walked, and bark at anything that passes in ftont of the house all day long.

I think a dog that lives in a house but gets proper stimulation and walks is happier that thosr garden dogs.

I would like to expand on this and suggest that this applies to humans as well.