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Originally Posted by Bamboo15

When I had my first Yorkie, one of my aunts who had larger dogs her whole life but did not have a dog at the moment used to insist I let my little Yorkie out into my (fenced in but large) backyard unsupervised. I told her I would not do that because I'm afraid of him being carried off by a hawk, an animal getting in/over the fence, etc. She used to make fun of us for being paranoid.

Then my aunt got a big Labrador. When it was about a year old she brought it over our house. She doesn't have a yard so we told her she could let her dog run around our yard of she'd like. Her response? "No, what if an animal gets under/over the fence, etc"

That is too funny!