We had a dog as well that we kept outside on a leash for shorter periods of times, (not more than an hour) While she was outside see became excited at something and tried chase it. Next thing we knew she fell through one of our window wells near the basement, not a big drop but big enough to do damage. When she fell through the leash broke her neck. We were actully home at the time and saw her fall, ran upstairs but it was still to late to do anything, she died within minutes. It was very tramatic for us all as we never imagined such a horrible thing could happen. I was 16 and it was my first experiance with losing a pet. I would never reccomend people use tie ups ever. I wont do it even for a few minutes.
You would be heart broken to come home and find out a tragidy happened. It took a long time for us to even consdier owning another dog agian, because we all blamed ourselves for the accident.
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