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The answer, plain and simple, is NO.
While you may think that the weather is pleasant, it is not pleasant 100% of the time, or even 50% of the time.
When you are out in the summer and it gets hot you have to option of going inside.
Your pets cannot
When the temperature drops in the evening and it gets cold you can go and put on a sweater.
Your pets cannot.
When the mosquitoes and other bugs get bad you can put on insect repellent or leave the area.
Your pets cannot.
When it gets windy and storms and thunders you can seek shelter away from the rain and noise.
Your pets cannot.
When predators, human or animal, come into your yard you can run, scream and defend yourself.
Your pets cannot.
If you are home alone and you get sick or injured you can call for help.
Your pets cannot.
I hope you get the idea but if not consider what it would be like to be locked in a cage, outside, all day and night. Someone comes to bring you food, play with you and check on you once or twice a day, but when the weather is bad and it has been raining for several days straight, and you are at your most scared and miserable you are lucky if your caregiver comes out to check on you once every 24 hours. If you get sick or injured you have no way to call for help until someone comes to check on you.
Imagine sleeping out in the open. The day is so very hot but finally evening comes and the temperature drops. At first it seems like a blessed relief until the dew falls and you are damp and chilled. You start to feel achy and awful. The sun rises and it get hot again. You feel better for a while but when evening comes it starts all over again. After several days of this you finally succumb to illness. It takes your caregiver several days, even weeks, to figure out you are ill. By then it may be too late to save you.
Imagine wearing a fur coat during the summer. It gets so hot that your body starts to overheat. Your brain cells start to die and you are so weak and disoriented you cannot move. Heat stroke is a terrible way to die and you are experiencing it.
Don't risk your pets' lives and well being. Keep them inside during the summer, with you, the person that loves them. If you take them out to graze stay with them at all times. It only takes a second for disaster to strike.
Don't think any of that could happen to you? Neither did the people in the following links.
Dangers of Outdoor Housing
(broken link removed)
GPs stolen from outdoor cage
(broken link removed)
(broken link removed)
Violent thugs batter family pets to death
Thread about people breaking into outdoor hutches and sheds
2 guinea pigs stolen from outdoor shed
Guinea pig attacked by rats in shed
Magpies attacking GPs in their outdoor hutches
4 GPs dead. Cause is a suspected mouse infestation in shed and garden
Ant infested yard and hutches
Warning for those keeping animals outside
Guinea pigs stolen from "Cavy Sanctuary"
While you may think that the weather is pleasant, it is not pleasant 100% of the time, or even 50% of the time.
When you are out in the summer and it gets hot you have to option of going inside.
Your pets cannot
When the temperature drops in the evening and it gets cold you can go and put on a sweater.
Your pets cannot.
When the mosquitoes and other bugs get bad you can put on insect repellent or leave the area.
Your pets cannot.
When it gets windy and storms and thunders you can seek shelter away from the rain and noise.
Your pets cannot.
When predators, human or animal, come into your yard you can run, scream and defend yourself.
Your pets cannot.
If you are home alone and you get sick or injured you can call for help.
Your pets cannot.
I hope you get the idea but if not consider what it would be like to be locked in a cage, outside, all day and night. Someone comes to bring you food, play with you and check on you once or twice a day, but when the weather is bad and it has been raining for several days straight, and you are at your most scared and miserable you are lucky if your caregiver comes out to check on you once every 24 hours. If you get sick or injured you have no way to call for help until someone comes to check on you.
Imagine sleeping out in the open. The day is so very hot but finally evening comes and the temperature drops. At first it seems like a blessed relief until the dew falls and you are damp and chilled. You start to feel achy and awful. The sun rises and it get hot again. You feel better for a while but when evening comes it starts all over again. After several days of this you finally succumb to illness. It takes your caregiver several days, even weeks, to figure out you are ill. By then it may be too late to save you.
Imagine wearing a fur coat during the summer. It gets so hot that your body starts to overheat. Your brain cells start to die and you are so weak and disoriented you cannot move. Heat stroke is a terrible way to die and you are experiencing it.
Don't risk your pets' lives and well being. Keep them inside during the summer, with you, the person that loves them. If you take them out to graze stay with them at all times. It only takes a second for disaster to strike.
Don't think any of that could happen to you? Neither did the people in the following links.
Dangers of Outdoor Housing
(broken link removed)
GPs stolen from outdoor cage
(broken link removed)
(broken link removed)
Violent thugs batter family pets to death
Thread about people breaking into outdoor hutches and sheds
2 guinea pigs stolen from outdoor shed
Guinea pig attacked by rats in shed
Magpies attacking GPs in their outdoor hutches
4 GPs dead. Cause is a suspected mouse infestation in shed and garden
Ant infested yard and hutches
Warning for those keeping animals outside
Guinea pigs stolen from "Cavy Sanctuary"