Well I am a woman who owns two cats and two dogs. The cats run the house, the dogs ruin the yard.

The cats enjoy having us around the place and take turns visiting people on their beds at night. They live inside because we're too close to a busy street and there are foxes and coyotes who live around here. Life outside is tough for cats.

The dogs are big enough to live outside and do so beause dogs are outside animals and they have a good fence (and Invisible Fence now, to keep them inside the fence). They have a dog house called "The Garage" in which they have a very nice large pen with hay for sleeping in. They are always extremely glad to see me and are generally better companions than the cats are. They're also getting pretty darned good at going for walks as we all learn who has to be in charge. The last time we met dogs off leash it was three from the corner house where the neighbors' fence had blown down that afternoon. My two just wagged and were quiet when we met on the street.

SRS