This is one reason when I take my Yorkies outside I NEVER EVER leave them ALONE!!! Won't do it even when we get our front yard fenced in. I don't do it even in the back with the big privacy fence up and lock on both doors. I don't take mine and leave them in my car to go shopping either. Just to risky. U can't trust people now days. I keep my doors all locked even if we go for a walk do the road with say 2 of our Yorkies at a time and our other 3 are in our house. My doors are locked all the time. I also don't leave my windows open in my house not even to run to the store. I leave them open when I'm here at home or hubby is here. I just don't want any of my Dolls taken from me. Don't know what I'd do it that ever happened.
When we 1st moved here to our house 4 years ago, we had a beautiful medium size mutt (Kipper), we had him out in our back yard on a (Not sure the name of them) lead (No privacy fence then) he stayed outside all the time. The day before he was stolen, he (We thought) got off his lead, hubby fed him every single evening as soon as he came home, didn't even come in the house 1st. He came in & ask if I knew where Kipper was I said no he was outside earlier cause I took him fresh water why, he said he's gone. He went to look for him around the block and by the time he came back Kipper was at our back garage door waiting to be fed.
We went out and bought him a new tie out lead and tie out, put Kipper on it and came inside and said he won't get off that one, I couldn't hardly get the clip on his collar.
Then next night we heard Kipper barking and thought he was barking at a cat (He loved to play with them). The next evening my hubby ask me again where Kipper was I said I don't know. Well he was stolen from us. We got to looking around where his dog house was and his tags was laying there and my hubby said there is NO way Kipper got loose by himself, they had cut his tags off and left them. We called the police and reported it to the HS and searched forever for him and still if I see a white dog I think it's Kipper.
And I guess as a smart or hurtful (Hurt me & my family to death) remark about a week later they brought his collar (Blue still have it) and left it on the side of our house in our yard, now we had been all over that side of our yard and never saw it so they had to of brought it back.
So I learned my lesson, listen when ANY of U're outside dogs bark, get up and look no matter if U think it's a rabbit or cat they are barking at, it may not be as it wasn't in Kippers' case.
And never ever leave U're babies outside alone. Outside dogs or not. I will not have another outside dog due to loosing Kipper. Not worth the risk of loosing any dog over. I know if we ever see Kipper again or he sees us he'll come up to us, and we would know him 100% for sure if his tounge was hanging out, it's split into a little way up it, hubby cut it when he was trimming Kippers' beard. But we've never seen him since and I'd say someone has him inside or he passed on. So please do be careful it can happen in U're own yards. & Kipper we love and miss U and think of U every single day |