When I was a kid, we had a dog that would escape our yard every chance she got. Each time, she’d be found blocks away. I didn’t have any other dogs to compare her to, so I just assumed that while cats can go outside and find their way back, dogs take off and go. Then we adopted Murray in 2008. And he would stay put! Brandon was like, duh. Dogs do that. And I thought, not in my experience, they don’t! All of this is to say that there is no gate between the front and back yard here. There is…