I am dying to give Abby a bit more sunshine, she loves it so much!
But I'm not willing to just yet. I have a large fenced yard, but I worry that she might be able to crawl under the fence SOMEWHERE that I haven't spotted and I live on a VERY busy road - one that has semis driving past regularly. We also live beside a family that has about 5 children ranging from 2 - 8 (ish) - I worry that they will be rough with her. On top of that I always worry that someone will steal her. She is a purebred dog afterall and there have been cases in a close by area to where I live, of purebred dogs being stolen in an attempt to breed them.
I never let her outside without me being there!
Once she has been spayed (hopefully within the next 2-4 weeks) and microchipped (I am doing this at the same time) I hope to give her a little more time outside - I will be a little less worried about her then! My parents and I are going to make her her own "play yard" under the big tree in the back yard, with a kennel type structure and I want to buy lots of agility items like the tubes etc... BUT again, I worry about, like Lady's Mom said, something getting her - if not a human then another animal
- so she would only be in there when I am home - but I figure I can do the yard work, hang the washing etc and know she is safe in there and still be around to supervise her....
I also have to get her registered. I wanted to leave this until I got her spayed because it is much cheaper then (by about $60). Also, I have been "protesting" about registering her. -_- In paying registration, I am paying to control the pets of those people who aren't responsible with their pets. Now, under normal circumstances I can see that people would say that I am being just as irresponsible by not registering my puppy - but Abby DOES NOT leave my sight. She remains in the house except for short periods (potty breaks and about 10-15 mins supervised play in the back yard), she is NEVER out of my yard except when I take her to my parents ( from about 4pm to 8pm 5 days a week because I work down there) and even there she is closely watched and never out of sight. -_-
I also was unimpressed by the fact that you have to pay registration in the city I live in from 6 WEEKS OLD.

That is ridiculous in my eyes. How many puppy's don't make it that far past that? LOTS! Many puppies die before 12 weeks!
And there's no refund if that was to happen!
It doesn't promote responsible breeding at all. If someone has a litter of puppies they would try to get rid of them at 6 weeks old so that they didn't have to pay the registration for each of them, instead of leaving them where they should be - with their mother.
On top of that, you have to pay a much higher registration because your puppy can't be spayed at 6 weeks old!!! So for a breeder, that would mean paying something like $72 for EACH PUPPY
- same for owners of puppies before they are spayed!
The town half an hour down the road requires that puppies are registered from 6 months old. That's a bit more like it!