I feel like most "outdoor dogs" live like 5 years max before they run off or get hit by a car. granted this could just be my farm dog experience.
yeah, it's definitely darwin in action. we had one that just had "it". name was max. half german shepard half huskie. perfect sw ks breed (lmao wtf?). but, he dominated farm life. probably because he was big and mean as crap. but only seemed like it. irl he was a giant teddy bear. but he barked like crazy whenever anyone drove within 1/4 mile from our house which was his main job. he lived to be like 15 years old which is insane because he never entered a house and would lose his mind if you tried to make him come into the house and obviously lived a tough old farm dog life. he was the only animal I ever saw my dad show any kind of emotion towards. when he died my dad put him in a 50 gallon drum and buried it on our ranch with a front end loader somewhere. kind of weird right? yeah, I know. pretty fuckin' sweet though.
Man, I can't help but LMAO. Putting his dog in an underground vault reminds me of when my old man put Mom in a concrete vault. Three yrs. later he died and my bossy older brother wanted him to be buried in a vault like Mom was. I was in charge and my old man told me that he didn't want to be buried in a vault, but my older sister insisted that I follow my brother's wishes so he got buried in a vault. MY OLD MAN WOULD BE PISSED. I hope he doesn't bring that up in the afterlife.