How's this for a work excuse? I missed work yesterday so my dog could stay inside. It was really, really cold and misty, and the dumb dog won't go in his house. So he was soaked like five minutes after going outside. I felt really bad for him. And he was actually behaving pretty well when he was inside. I put him out for a while in the early afternoon, and then he came back in and more or less went to sleep the entire rest of the afternoon. Hubby let him out to pee when he got home, and the dog ran right back inside. He knows where he has it good!