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What do you do with the dogs?
Just curious, what does everyone do with their dogs when you aren't home. Do they go with you a lot? Stay home mostly?
My dogs are seldom left home alone. I do accounting for several small businesses and the dogs are welcome at about half of the clients. They are well behaved (even puppy Riley!) and sleep or visit with clients (and usually mooch their lunches ). If I am going somewhere to run errands etc. I will bring them and they hang out in the car (except in extreme weather). Riley usually goes to doggy daycare one day a week. Luckily both dogs are quite laid back about travelling and also frequently go away with us on holidays (camping, visit friends/family etc).
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Jag stay's home in a crate.unless it's just me and him.because of my pickup.with the kids not enough room and i had it before jag was given to us. but i would take him everywhere if there was room.
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Rosco is crated when we're not home. We'll take him if we go into the city, or to the store or anything like that. But if I know he'd have to be alone in the car for any amount of time, I'll leave him home.
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Our's are crated during the day when we are at work and generally go with us when we go on trips. On the odd occassion that they do not go with us, they go to a kennel free boarding facility.
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Cassie is crated when she is alone, but Hunter is seldom left alone. If he is it is for a short time, less than an hour. If he is to be left for any more than that the "Grand-Parents" take him.
We are lucky to live close to both sets of parents. He has never done any damage, but he stresses himself out, he barks and whines so much when he is alone that when we return he is panting like I have never seen a dog pant before
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I've been home all day with Tia (& the kitties) since we brought her home last May. I am supposed to start a new job at the beginning of March, I have been trying to get her used to me being away from the house ... so far we're up to about 3 hours max. She is not crated, but she is restricted to the kitchen/hallway area. So far she seems quite happy for me to go out because she gets a "doggie diversion" - ie. a stuffed kong or something.
The new job is part-time for now and less than 5 km from home, so hopefully the extra hour and a bit will not be too difficult. We will still have our walk/run in the morning which seems to tire her out enough to keep us both happy. |
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my dog is crated for about 4 hrs in the morning, then my fiance comes home at lunch and takes him back to work w/ him for the afternoon. We try to take Tucker everywhere we can, short errands around town, or to visit friends & family. If he is left home though, he's crated.
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nakita and bree are left on the main floor the basement and the up stairs are off limits until i know bree won't eat anythig . I work from home so they are not left that long for about 3-4 hours tops. so far so good
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Winston is not crated but left alone...I crate trained him up until he was 3 years old...Then he mellowed out and learned to be a good boy while Mom & Dad were away! I use baby gates to keep him out of the living room so he doesn't go up on the couch! He is so great! I only have to lean the gate across the doorway and he knows he cant go in that room! He is 110 lbs so knocking it down would not be an issue for him!
He knows the schedule! He looks at me funny if I stay home from work! Its like he is saying "your not supposed to be here!"... |
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Lukka goes in her crate for about 1 1/2 hours two times a week. My hubby and I work opposite shifts so that she doesn't get left alone too long. I try and work weedends more often than weekdays so she is spared the crate altogether. Through the night she doesn't get crated.
If we go visiting she usually goes with us.
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If I go anywhere for a night or two.. Cider comes along or I don't go. Later this month will be the first vacation I won't take her on. But, she'd be neglected with me skiing all day for 3 days.
When I go to work, if someone will be home at some point we've graduated to her being loose in my bedroom for 4 hours. If everyone is working, she's crated for the work day.
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both beanies are alone in the appartment 9am to 6pm during weekdays, neither crated - they're amazing kids and only touch their toys. vacations and outings are planned around them, if they can't come with us then we don't go. they've never been kenneled, and dakotah only spent two nights away from us in 3 years, maika zero. it just feels too weird when they're not there!
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Bobby and Amber go with me whenever possible - to the store, doing errands, that sort of thing - but only when the weather, the errands, etc. allow. In good weather I will leave them in the back yard if I have to go out for a longer period, in bad weather they have the run of the house. The weather plays a big part on whether they stay home or come with me. Being retired I'm not away regularly so that's a good thing.
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Helix is crated during the day for two 4 hour segments (before and after lunch) and at night too, but he's only a puppy (3.5 months). He's pretty much house trained (he rings bells on the door when he wants to go out ) . We dedicate all of our home time after work in the evenings and our weekends to him (playing, exercising, training). We'd love to let him have freedom at night but we have 2 kitties that don't like him yet and we're afraid to let them interact unsupervised- our bedroom is their safe zone where they sleep and can run too when they are stressed and Helix sleeps in his crate beside us. Right now he's learning boundaries and what he is and isn't allowed to do, so it would be simply irresponsible for us to let him have the run of the house while we're at work. Our living room is as puppy proof as we can make it, but I'm sure there are still things he can chew that could hurt him and the only other place we could reasonably put him would be the bathroom, but he dislikes being locked in there more than being put in his crate. When he's old enough and we can trust him to not destroy the house or fight with the kitties, he won't be crated anymore (at night or during the day). For us, crating is the best possible method to properly train our pup and keep him safe during the day and at night.
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My dog Guinness is usually confined in the kitchen w/ a baby gate. Ok, it's a very tall gate as he jumps over the average sized ones. I'm gone about 9 hr a day, 5 days a week. Most of the time he is pretty good, but has occasionally chewed something or had an accident, esp if he is not feeling well (ate something that did not agree). I have left him free in the house for short periods of time and no problems. He goes to doggy daycare sometimes, like 1x in a 1-2 week period right now. This tires him out for a couple days usually. If I leave him at night to go out during the work week, he does get anxious. Too much time alone, probably, but being single and living alone, I do the best I can, and he's got cats to keep him company.
As for taking him w/ me, yes, but only if I am going on a trip to see my family so far. He gets carsick and does not like car travel, or he could go with me on errands around town, etc. Still hoping he'll grow out of that... |
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Harley is sprawled out on his sofa, not mine....yes he has his own couch. Home at lunch, run about, then back to sleeping on his couch.
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Dracko has the run of the house if he isn't with me. I do take him with me anytime I go to do errands or work in town (I'm in sales so I make calls on accounts). Sometimes he even gets to come with me when I have to go away overnight or gone too long to be able to leave him home w/o a potty break.
He destroys nothing. When I get home the cats and he are always happy to see me and NOTHING is out of place. I'd say the cats get in to way more than he does. When he was a puppy (he is 6 now) I crated him for a few months at a max of 3 hour stints as he went through a 'getting in to everything' stage, but the crate taught him time out when I left and I've never had to use it since. I agree with your sentiment, Golden Girls. One of my co-workers crates her dogs all freakin' day long, everyday. I mean, 6, 8 hours. How boring can that be for a dog??? |
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My dogs have been pretty lucky... I work strange hours and my DH works pretty regular hours (7 to 5) ... If we are both gone all day, they go to my parent's farm for the day. Otherwise they stay home for at the most 3 hours at a time. Sam is pretty great in the house; Maia occasionally messes if left too long. They do on occasion rip something apart, but generally that is something that I've left around that isn't normally out. They are still very young though. I don't believe in crating either. On nice spring and fall days they can stay in the yard (I feel I live in a very safe area and the fence is tall) but winter and summer they stay inside. I used baby gates to keep them in the kitchen when they were younger but I find them much calmer when not restricted (although they are never allowed upstairs).
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I work fulltime outside the home and cannot take the dogs with me to work, have a multiple dog household so they are not alone and have the companionship of one another. I do crate until a dog is trustworthy is the house, right now only Winnie is crated when I am away for longer periods he is a 13 lb dog in a 30 x 48 X 36 crate, hopefully in time he will be fine with full freedom, but as of now he is a chewer and will quite happily chew on an electrical cord , and with my multiple pack to dangerous for me to leave kongs or bones out without supervision and he is not willing to hold it for extended periods unless crated, when I got Maya(greyhound) she started off in the crate for 2 weeks then an x-pen was used, later baby gated her in a room, till she earned full freedom of the house. I found some dogs need a slow transition to having freedom, otherwise they fail.
I also had a dog that needed to be crated as it reduced his anxiety when I was not home, if given freedom he became extremely destructive. There are some dogs that need a crate and some that don't. Therefore I do not judge those that use a crate, I have had enough dogs of varying peronalities/anxiety levels to know not all can be treated the same, and what is good for dog does not necessarily work for the next. The use of crates has spared many dogs from ending up in a pound and being euthansized. And a heck of a lot mores dogs would die in pounds early if working people were not adopting them, life may not be perfect and idealistic but it sure beats euthanizing thousand of healthy young animals, simply because we can not provide stay at home families for them where they never have to be crated
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I am lucky, I am home a lot taking caare of the kiddies. But, eventually i have to buy food, and even though I tried, the grocer doesn't like the dogs. Darned health department! J/K
They stay home, if I can't take them inside with me, then they have to stay home. If we go away on vacation they also stay home but we get a friend to come over and play with them. Or if neccesary I will leave them with my step dad. However, we are very boring people, so we haven't had to worry about vacations in a loooong time. |
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For those of us that use a crate for longer periods, that should be okay too. Someone can be a huge animal lover and a great parent to a pet, but may choose to crate their dog when they are not home. This doesn't mean that they love their animal any less than those who don't crate. Sometimes instead of assuming that people are worried about what the dog will do to the house, it can be looked at as what the house can do to the dog. For a chewer, an open house can be a dangerous thing, and I am very lucky to have never had a chewer.
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Some dogs even when trained they prefer thier crates, It gives them seciurity, peaceful times, even away from us people when they want (it does happen) there is nothing wrong with that. one of my friends trianed his dog that to go lie down in the crate with the door ( it's the dogs home inside the house like a dog house outside) opened when people come over not all his friends like dogs so this way they can come over and there is no problem.
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Please stay on topic and refrain from hijacking. The question is: What do you do with the dogs?
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They stay home?
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My dogs are free in the house. I don't bring them with me often because Boo is such a pain in the car, but if we go on vacation, they come (ifff ).
When I fostered the little puppies, they were put in a small room when I was gone because I had no idea what they might have found. Even the most puppy proof house still has some dangerous chewables in it. |
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I work at a kennel that has Doggie Daycare, so while I'm at work my kids come with me and stay in a spare kennel and go out with the other dogs when daycare is in session.
Its a lifesaver - they're pooped at the end of the day just like me! When I have to go somewhere else though, I go with either the bathroom for longer trips, or the crate for short errands. |
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My guys and fosters are loose in the house. If I get a foster who's not clean they stay in a small bedroom that's real safe for them.
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dang!! looks like i jinxed myself :sad: came home today to find maika had snacked on a tube of hand-cream i had left on the coffee table, as well as shredded most of a very nice wicker basket i had gotten for christmas and was storing cd's in, on the floor in a corner. oh well... she's apparently not mature enough to be loose in the appartment during the day, after all back in the crate she goes when we leave for work... waaaaaaaaaah!
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Oh sorry Techno, that is too bad:sad:
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