Is it ok to leave my dogs outside?

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I live in Las Vegas and we are about to have a cold freeze.

I have a German Shepard. She is a medium sized dog. She has a thick medium coat. She is like 1 year old. She is currently sleeping on a fluffy chair curled up.
I also have a small border collie . She is small. Like a bigger than average chihuahua but she is 4 years old. She has a short medium coat. She is currently on a wool chair with blankets.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

• "Is it ok to leave my dogs outside?"

Not one word of your next 11 sentences has any relevance to us answering that question. My dogs are not allowed on furniture, but that your pooches were occupying chairs when you typed that makes it most unlikely that they were "outside" at that moment.
There is not one word about WHERE they must sleep when "outside". Is it roofed? - insulated? - on the ground? - on concrete? - padded?

And it is impossible for you to have a "German Shepard" - no such thing exists. There is no "arding" task for any dog to perform, so no such breed was developed. My breed's real name translates as German Shepherd Dog, because the breed was developed to HERD sheep.

• "I live in Las Vegas and we are about to have a cold freeze."

Weather forecasts normally state the expected minimum temperature. But you haven't.
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/GSD_Haven/info?yguid=70025627 should show a team of GSDs hauling a sled at speed - but my software cannot see any photos in YahooGroups since /neo/ was imposed on us despite over 40,000 votes to return to /classic/ YahooGroups.
My GSDs have been quite comfortable during frosts, and even when snow lay on the ground for 3 days in 2012 - the only time it has done so during the 37 years I've lived here. (I consider that snow ought to be up on a mountain downwind from me.)

But each of my dogs has a raised sleeping box (to insulate the floor from the ground temperature) with a top-hinged door (to minimise draughts), and can choose to stand or lie in its run, or to go into the sleeping box.

You need to READ the Community Guidelines. One of them states that we are NOT allowed to waste bytes by asking the same question repeatedly. But you have asked
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArY6aHPU3xvQdA13jRS.ll_q1KIX;_ylv=3?qid=20131208225111AAhtJaK
as well as this one.
Add
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/The_GSD/Source/
to your browser, so that you can easily look up all sorts of information about dogs, especially GSDs.

To discuss GSDs, join some groups such as
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/GSD_Friendly/
The people in them KNOW about GSDs. Plus you can include actual photos in your posts, unlike the clunky mechanism that stingy Y!A provides.
 
King Les - first pup in 1950; GSD breeder & trainer as of 1968

Allie · Answer

well how long are you leaveing them outside .... if its like an hour yea but if your leaving for acouple days and its gonna snow or somthing then thats animal abuse and you can get into alot of trouble for it ...and they'll get sick

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