I get really tired of people telling me there dog is an "outside" dog. Why have a dog if you have it outside all the time? Our lives now rotate around work, computers and television. I can drive through my neighborhood on a beautiful day and see few kids or adults outside. We mow and take care of the yard because we have to, not want to. So the outside dog, yard dog, sees humans at feeding time and then the other 23 1/2 hours it's alone and bored. Bored dogs are destructive, noisy and can become territorial. The normal excuse is that their parents had an outdoor dog on the farm. I'm 42 years old and I am the first generation of my family to never live on a farm. I highly doubt all these other people are directly off the farm. This is where the myth kicks in. Farmers had dogs that were pets. Yes, they spend most of there time outside, but so did the farmer. My Uncle Roger had a little dog named Spot. Spot was a Jack Russell terrier with scars and chewed up ear