How long is it acceptable to leave a dog outside?

[AwfulMaureen]

We are caring for a relatives dog...she's a greyhound and is quite big. She has two walks a day, morning and one at night at about 6 or 7 o clock. She is young and boisterous and because we have an old cat, we keep the dog in the sitting room which ajoins the garden and covered deck.

Sometimes, she gets overexcited and wants to play rough....as my children are young, I put her outside if she gets snappy....which she does now and then...not agressive...but over rough....she has a bench on the deck with a large blanket and obviously a drink and food...there's a roof and three sides to the deck...but I don't know what's an acceptable time for her to be out there?

At the moment, I will leave her there for maybe half an hour...then bring her in again if she's been grabbing DC toys etc...but what else could I do? She's got no real "manners" and will be gone in a week so I don't feel I can teach her much....

Guess it depends how cold it is,does she seem.like she wants to come back in?My dog always barked or came to the door when he was fed up.If its freezing and just sat still not running about to keep warm then i think half an hour is long enough.

Hmm. I wouldn't lock my dog out for 30 minutes- it's too cold.

Management wise popping her somewhere (does it have to be outside- no other rooms that are suitable) for a few minutes should suffice if she's only young.

When does she get over excited? The answer may be just to avoid triggering this, if it is predictable. And to ensure she has things lying about she can grab with her mouth (instead of arms and legs, etc) when it happens.
If the children are playing with their toys, can she not go somewhere else, with something to chew on? Did she 'come with' any toys, kongs, etc?

Anyway yes I think 30 mins is too long. If she's warm enough and seems happy out there (like in summer, when she might have a sunbathe) then fair enough but at this time of year she is probably cold esp. being a sighthound.

we have a lab and have him out for no more than 15 mins (as he gets bored after a bit), but he has a really thick undercoat. as far as I know greyhounds don't have this and get cold very quickly (this is why you see them in coats a lot).

I wouldn't leave any of the short fine coated dogs out for more than five minutes without a coat on in this weather.

Greyhound, not long at all in this weather, not at all without a coat and proper shelter they have very little fur or body fat to help keep them warm.

Try gating off an area of the house with a baby gate. Greyhounds are usually too dim/lazy to bother trying to jump them.

I leave my dog out long enough to have a pee/poo, sniff around and then he comes looking in. I'd say defjnitely not linger than 10 mjnutes absoloute max. And he is a folden retriever. Different if i am out in the garden but he gets bored on his own so why would i leave him out.

Is outdoors the only option ? My girl has been out in the howling wind and rain for the last two hours but she's happy watching the world go by and making sure everything is just dandy on her territory. Not sure I'd put a greyhound out though.

my dogs are outside all day long, from 9am until school run about 3 and if im not doing the school run they stay out until about 4 or 5, but to qualify they're both gsd/collie crosses and are used to this, i take them to work with me, and i work on a farm. they have a bed at the workshop so can go and curl up in a fleecey blanket if they want.

think it depends on the dog and what its used to, and obviously with greyhounds probably but a coat on them and keep an eye.

Sorry I never came back! There's nowhere else...as I said, I have a cat. The sitting room ajoins the garden...so it's the most sensible place. The cat eats in the kitchen...up the hall from the sitting room and he sleeps upstairs in one of the bedrooms.

The dog doesn't seem to have a trigger....she'll be sitting there and suddenly start rolling about on her back....I've tauight the children not to shriek around her...or to bounce about as it seems to rile her...but she just "flips" sometimes....she has chew toys and I do play with her....