Where do your dogs stay?

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    Where do your dogs stay?

    Just curious - where do you keep your dogs?

    When I'm gone my dogs are in crates. When I'm home they're free to roam the house or they're in their outside pen.  At night they sleep on our bedroom floor on rugs.

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    Inside or outside in fenced in area and kennel lots.... all are free to roam and at night they sleep all over the house, the two youngest still prefer to get in their crates.....

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    When my family isn't home, they are in the house not in crates they raom about as they please, when we are home it's the same, they sleep where they like, sometimes one or the other with me, and sometimes one or the other in my parents' bed lol

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    Dakota has the run of the house. Neiko stays in his crate when I'm gone. They don't like to hang outside to much without me so if I'm in the house, so are they. If I'm outside, they are too. 

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    Chief - In the pasture with the goats. They all have 2 lean-to's, and a covered kennel area for shelter. The goats like to go into the woods and sleep in the dense brush though, so he usually makes some kind of nest and sleeps there too.

    Butter- Can come in when he wants, but rarely wants to. He majorly prefers being outside so we let him. We have a covered porch with a bed out there for him if it rains and he doesn't want to come inside. He spends most of his time in our 1 acre fenced yard, and he gets run of the whole property on occasion. He usually sleeps outside, but once every few weeks or so he'll ask to come in and we let him sleep in our bedroom with us.

    Axl- Goes outside to potty and for short walks and that's about it. He's old so he spends pretty much all of hsi time parked on the couch or in our recliner. He sleeps in bed with us.

    Punch- is a puppy, so he's always crated when we're not watching him.

    Pepito- has a crate but doesn't use it. He goes outside a few times a day to bark at things and then comes back in and sleeps wherever Axl is.

    Culley- Sleeps with us, but is crated when we're not home. He's tolerant of the other dogs, but he has a pretty short fuse and we don't want him alone with other dogs in case a fight breaks out. As long as one of us is home, which is most of the time, he's free to go where he wants.

    When we're not home- Culley and Punch are always crated, Butter is always in the yard, and Axl and Pepito are left in the living room to snooze.

     

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     My dogs are kept seperated, at all times. They are house dogs. Teenie has an ex pen and Emma has a room. Both dogs have crates, as well. They like to lay in their crates. Emma will occasionally hop off of the bed to sleep in her crate. Mostly, though, she sleeps under the covers. She also mostly comes with me when I leave, but when she doesn't, she's confined to her room. Teenie is confined to her ex pen at night and while I'm gone. She isn't as good with out and about, and she'll pee right on my bed, so she can't have a turn sleeping with me.

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    When we're out of the house, Conrad has a crate and Marlowe has a room. Conrad has separation anxiety and the only thing that calms him is the small enclosed dark space of his crate.  Marlowe on the other hand is crate-trained but is not such a fan so he gets his own room to keep his nosey nose out of things around the house that might harm him were he decide to take a taste-test (learned this the very hard, very expensive way).

    At night Marlowe usually sleeps on our living room couch, but sometimes just spends the night wherever he happens to land around 9PM. Conrad has a dog bed in our bed room and sleeps there with us. Sometimes we let him in bed with us, especially in the colder months when we frequently wake up to him standing next to the bed wagging to beat the band and looking meaningfully at the spot at the foot of the bed.  

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     Cheyanne sleeps outside.She likes to watch the house and let me know if there is anything out there.

    Lillie sleeps inside or outside.Depends on the mood she is in on days.Sometimes she gets restless when the occasional field mouse gets in the house and she tries to find it and those are the nights she gets to sleep outside.She is in a dog kennel though.But if it's cold or raining out she is inside no matter what.

    Kujo sleeps with my 2 year old daughter.Right under the covers at her feet.

    Jayde sleeps outside with Cheyanne keeping gaurd.Tried to let her stay inside but no matter how much work we did on crate training she will scream and cry all day.And if we let her loose in the house her and Lillie well never sleep.It's like have kids over for a sleepover!So for her sake we just let her keep Cheyanne company.

    None of my dogs run off when outside except Lillie so their free to live chain free and kennel free.Lillie gets supervised outside time.lol 

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    Both dogs have the run of the house at all times. At night, Trooper sleeps on my bed and Rosie sleeps in my parents' room, either on her bed or their's.

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    It depends on how long I will be gone, not too long - Casey gets run of the house, other wise he is confined to my/his bedroom, where he sleeps on my bed all day. Even when he has the run of the house, I usually come home to him sleeping on my bed. Foster dogs are *almost* always crated when I am not home, and they sleep in bed with me, depending on their age and situation - puppies stay in their crate.

    Cats are free to roam - they like to hang out in the pool area, we have a screen covering it and a cat door so they can go in and out there as they wish.

    No animal in my house is EVER left outside when no one is home, too many things could happen, I've seen it all working in a shelter.

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    Dogs have free access to all of the house except for the dog free zones only kitties can access (basement, one room that is all theirs and the enclosed porch all have cat doors).  I think Pofi spends much of the day napping on our bed with a shoe or two of mine for company and comfort.  Mia spends a great deal of time on the couch....

    At night, Pofi sleeps on our bed between us and draped across our legs.  Mia sometimes starts out on the bed with us, but inevitably retires to one of the many dog beds on the floor - most often the round thick ortho foam one I bought for her with a boltser round the back of it.

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    Mine are crated when I am gone, but are free in the house when I am home. Usually they only want to be where I am anyway. The only rooms that are off limits to them are the kids bedrooms, just because there are too many things in there that dogs like to eat. At night, Penny is crated because I don't fully trust her yet and she chases the cats, but the boys sleep in my bedroom most nights along with the younger cat. A couple times a week I will crate them and let the older cat come in the bedroom for the night. I don't have a fenced yard, so they are only out for potty, leash walks, and a few times a week at the fenced portion of the park.

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     Louise used to be crated when she was alone in the apartment, but now she can be wherever she wants.   At night she sleeps in my bed.

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    When we're gone the dogs are in their chain link garage pen. It's about 6 x 8 feet, with two Kuranda beds, and a dog door to an outside run the length of the house. There's a wood fence around the whole yard, with a separate chainlink gate at either end of the run to separate them from the yard and where we keep the garbage and recycling containers. At night they're crated in our bedroom and the rest of the time they're wherever they want to be. Usually that's in the house with us.

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    When we're gone, Dipper is in his kennel.  He's destructive if left alone!  Brownie and Rocky have the run of the house.  I don't worry about those two together.  Brownie mostly counter surfs when I leave!  When I am home, the dogs are all over the house or outside in the fenced in part of the yard.  They have over an acre fenced in to themselves.  They like to hang out around and in the barn.  They have dog houses outside too but do they use them?  Nope.  I guess it was a waste of money since none of the dogs will even go in them!