I usually put him in the backyard but he is stressing me out this week...he escaped on Tuesday and he scratched the gate hard today and his paws are all bloody.
He has accidents in the house so maybe I will crate him?!?
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In the laundry room. They usually sleep.in their crates!
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We used to crate them, now they're old and lazy, so we just gate them on our main floor with all the bedroom doors closed. They have access to the kitchen, bathroom and living room, all wood and tile floors.
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In her crate in the guest room!
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Our dog has freedom of the house. We had crated her in the beginning but she broke out often. She usually is so chill we don't need to worry about leaving her out.
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laundry room (which is fair size room)
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We crated him until family needed to borrow the crate. Now he's gated into the dining room, with only his toy bucket and bed!
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Crate!
He's been crate trained since I trained him as a puppy. Now that he is much older, he's back in the crate when we aren't home (not all that frequently and not for more than a few hours at a time).
He's been having more separation anxiety since the baby, which means he tries to climb INSIDE our couch. I'm tired of sewing it back up, plus he gets into the cat boxes and food and trash, so our best answer is crate. It isn't used for punishment in our house, so he thinks it's his own personal dog cave with his toys, and he's never minded going in there.
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We used to crate our dog when she was really young; now she manages her anxiety by choosing a closet to curl up in when she sees us about to leave. In our current home she lies under the laundry room sink (we put down soft blankets for her) and we give her a treat on our way out so she can associate the separation with something positive. Who knows what she does while we're gone, probably hangs out on the sofa!
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Nope! He is king of this castle. He has never been crated. Once he was potty trained we stopped keeping him in the kitchen with the gate. He just sleeps while we're gone... he's boring.
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We crated when she was little, but she has earned free reign. Only trouble she gets into is turning down the bed and sleeping under the blankets.
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@oliviaoblivia: That is too much!
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No, we don't anymore. She was crated for the first 3 months. Then she got access to hallway only. Now, she gets the whole place. She loves sleeping on our bed while we are gone.
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We did when they were puppies but not anymore. We usually shut the doors to certain rooms if we are gone long. When we both work they do to doggy day care aka grandma's so that helps.
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we keep both pups in the laundry room where both crates are kept. we don't lock them in the crates (tho they usually just sleep there).
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We crated them when they were young. They have free reign when we are gone now. Sometimes they get in trouble and I want to get crates again!
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I think I will crate him in our house again. He was fine in the backyard for a month but I think he has anxiety right now...maybe he thinks we won't come back?
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If crate = spread out on the couch, then yes, we crate.
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We definitely crate. Adopted our dog at 2 years old so she was already crate trained when she came to us. She LOVES her crate though, and if it's left open when we're home she'll often choose to hang out in there. There was even a time when she refused to eat anywhere but in her crate!
If we let her have free reign of the house, I'm pretty sure she would just do exactly what @oliviaoblivia 's dog does haha! She already will do this if we're in another room and she wants to get 'in' the bed.It's kind of irrational/neurotic but part of my motivation for her staying in a crate when we're away is that I worry if someone were to break into the house, that she would then have the ability to run away
She also looks 'aggressive' and I worry that an intruder who isn't scared off by her might hurt her so that he could continue with whatever plans he had. My hope is that a burglar would see that she is contained and do what he came for but that our dog wouldn't be lost or harmed in the process.
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We crate trained when he was younger, but now he has free reigns over the house. He's normally just sleeping in our bed when we're away.
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We have never crated our 2 dogs. They have free reign of the house but DH leaves them in bed when he leaves for work and by the time I get home (about 8 hours later) they are still in bed, haha!! Our bed is too high for them to jump on but if they are desperate, they can jump down.
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We tried crating the first month we adopted her 4 years ago, but then started trusting her. Now she has free run of our home, except she's usually in the same place we left her...
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We crate trained until our pup was about 1 1/2 then my husband worked out of our house for 7 months and we stopped crating now he has free reign of the downstairs. He's pretty good, no accidents, the worst thing he'll do is chew on my couch pillows.
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We used to but now we let him roam free. He doesn't have accidents. If he did, we would continue to crate him!
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We have to crate our dogs. One of them has anxiety so, if she isn't crated, she pees and poos everywhere. By default, the other one gets crated. Our anxious dog also has to go into this crate b/c she has broken loose from every other crate we have ever used:
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We have three dogs, and two of them love their crate! They are to the point now that when we grab our keys, they run and hop in. Our third dog is scared of everything in life, so I'm not surprised she hates the crate
How old is he? Has he ever been crated before?
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@grizz: He is 4 and we always crated him when we were in an apartment. We moved to a house last month and he was doing fine in the backyard for a few weeks...maybe he prefers being inside!
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@autumnlove: I bet he'd do great in there! Our big dog is way more chilled out in the crate than he is in the backyard for some reason. I've never understood why!
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We just started letting our dog stay out of the crate while we are gone and he watches us leave from the window but after that I am almost certain he just lays on his bed the whole time. Every now and then he runs to his crate when we are leaving so we will close him in, I assume those days he just wants the extra security. I never thought I would be a person who would say this but we do take him to doggy day care once or twice a week. It wears him out and a tired dog is a well behaved dog!
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We crate the younger dog but the old dog is left out. The younger dog can be left out for a little while if we are just running to the store. We probably could leave him out more but don't want to run the risk. He stats out of trouble this way & our stuff doesn't get destroyed.
If you crate start it over the weekend while you are home. Stay in the room with him for a while and slowly move further away from him. Then leave the house a little at a time till he gets use to it.
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No, we let the two of them run around in the house. We close the bedroom door so they don't sleep on the bed.
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Nope, the two of them have fairly free range.
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Free roam of the house, lucky guy!!!
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Depends on the weather. If it is too cold or too hot, we pen them up. Otherwise they go outside. One day I will be able to feel like I can leave them in the house alone... I know they can handle it. It just worries me for some reason.
How old is he? Has he ever been crated before?
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