Dogs outside in kennels

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Hi, I am looking getting a puppy, which would eventually spend a lot of its days at the yard, in a kennel, or outside when it was appropriate. I am worried about a puppy getting cold outside. How old would it need to be to outside during the day. It is likely to be a terrier type
 
My dogs live outside but they are GSDs, have done so from being about three months old.
Our runs are flagged, have roofs and they each have a kennel/box.
You can rig heating up to boxes, I am sure someone else can advise.
Also need to provide lots of stimulation in between periods alone, ie, big long walks and runs, training etc (brain needs exercise as much as body
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Would the dog be in at night? I would look into getting a rough-coated type if it is going to be outside for long periods.
 
It would be inside at night. So its during the day, but I am just worried about coming into the winter, and having a tiny puppy. So it could either be at home, and i'd have to get a walker till the weather improved and then it could start being out more. Or hold off on puppy till the better weather
 
Maybe hold off until the weather improves then, and if it is a baby puppy it might not cope well with being alone for the first few weeks as it will just have been separated from its' littermates, and like I say, I wouldn't put a pup outside for long periods until three or four months at least.
 
I would thoroughly recommend a wire haired breed, we have chickens and spend whole days at the weekends cleaning them out and preparing them for shows etc.. our Welsh Terrier happily runs around our field and stables all day come rain or shine without being grizzly or shivering and never gets wet down to his skin

Do train the dog to be comfortable in all situations then (yard permitting) then it could come out and about the yard when someone is there, ours loves sniffng around in the stables and watching us at work and he is not phased by the chickens (although he isnt allowed in their netted off area) or our sheep at all and its much more interesting for him to be able to join in, its only taken about two months of conditioning for him to be trusted completely, he was on a lunge rein tied to a fence until that point (he comes home - he wasnt left like that!)

I would also wait till warmer weather, it will be hard to accustom a dog to being outside most of the day if its had a winter of luxury in a house!
 
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