A Thread About Dogs/Pets

I love dogs. Unfortunately, I've lost three of my four the last year. I'm one of those men that grieve when their fur babies leave, and especially with the first one that left me, it hurt a long time. I still think about her more than a year later.

Since the Warrior Forum is the help desk of the internet , I've got a question. The last dog is about 7 years old. She was an inside dog for the first two years and an outside dog afterwards because of how the house was after we moved. She sheds very heavily. You pet her and you'll get a handful of hair every time.

We've recently moved again and we live on the ocean and the other side is a highway so there isn't really a safe place for her to be outside right now. So, she's an indoors dog again. I just got to thinking i haven't seen any hair anywhere in the house whereas normally, there would be piles of it outside at the old places.

Does anyone have any idea why it *seems* she's quit shedding? When I've petted her the last couple of days since coming inside I've not seen any excess hair.

Could it be the stress of being outside or she feels safer together with the family? Her diet hasn't changed. If not emotional, what? By the way, within the last week when she was still outside at the old place, she was shedding as normal. So, this is a sudden change it seems.

Ideas?

Mark