The dogs look happy enough.

This is a kennel or pet sitting place. I just watch a gal bring 6 dogs out to this platform on leashes and let them go and another gal was out in the yard doing poop scooping duty.

I got this screenshot of one of the gals-

http://s11.postimg.org/zd9kt99pv/pet_kennel.jpg

her t-shirt might be an advertisement for this place but I don't have time to clarify or enlarge it this morning.

If it is a farm, they might just be outside dogs. A lot of farmers have dogs just to scare predators away. A lot of "practical" peoples think we're nuts for letting our pets in the house.

NQ, I think you may be right. They've changed the cam angle and I can see that the yard is graveled and not grass or mud, really. That seems a much more commercial thing than a residential yard. MD, I hope you're right about the mud and happy dogs in it, because it certainly seems to rain a lot in this place!

Mira you're right it does look like a dog kennel exercise area. It also sorta looks rural. That looks like an old farm house and garage/out building next to it.

Homely dogs love mud to roll in so even if it looks bad to us I'm sure they were enjoying themselves :)

Several dogs now ... it could be the exercise yard of boarding kennels, maybe.

I don't like what I'm seeing on this cam - muddy, cold back yard with cold rain coming down, and two dogs left out in it with no real shelter. They don't look unhappy, but it sure doesn't look like much fun to me!