Where do your dogs stay?

Nemo has free run of the house - most of the time.  The only time he is restricted is if I'm going to be away when the mail is delivered.  The mail comes through a slot in the front door. Picture that funny videos show where the dog attacks the mail coming through the slot and you'll get the picture.  I haven't yet found the perfect barricade so to make sure I get to look at the mail before he shreds it I use a gate to keep him out of that room.  Other than that, he can do as he pleases which apparently means lying under the kitchen table napping to HGTV or the comedy channel on XM radio until I return.  He doesn't get to choose the channels.  Outside is limited to walks on leash or the deck when the weather permits.  He allows me to share the bed with him.  It is the MASTER bedroom and he thinks that means him I suppose.  The bed has always been his "safe" place. 

 Crates are for traveling. 

Snuffa and Kayjin have free run of the house, and at night they sleep in our room.  Snuffa sleeps on the bed, and Kayjin usually sleeps in his dog bed...when the cats leave enough room for him  

When no one is home Benny is in his ex - pen in the living room and Buster, Max, and Lady have some free roam of the house (we block off the sunroom, kitchen, and diningroom). 

At night, Buster sleeps on the bed with DH and I, Lady and Benny each sleep on their beds at the foot of our bed, and Max sleeps at the top of the stairs keeping watch on the front door.  Although after  everyone is definitely sleeping he comes into the bedroom and sleeps in DH's computer chair. 

 When I am home, Sniper is in the same room with me. She's still only a bit over 3 months old and while I do believe she is nearly housebroken, she still has puppy teeth and a puppy brain and likes to get into things she shouldn't! So she chills with me in whatever room I happen to be in. When we are not home (not often, I only work part time) she is in her crate 100% of the time! At night, she sleeps next to our bed in her own little dog bed. She is never outside unsupervised, who knows what she could get into out there!

My puppy stays in an exercise pen that's 4ft x 4ft; it holds his bed, water, and ugodog potty system and gives him plenty of room to play in (he's a 10 lb Shih-Tzu). He'll be moving into the kitchen soon, which is about 20x12 with a tiled floor, and have baby-gates to keep him from getting into things like electrical cords in the rest of the house when I'm not home. When I'm home, he's with me whether I'm in the living, dining, bath or kitchen rooms...he follows me everywhere, lol. Eventually, he'll also be sleeping upstairs with me.

I keep the cat and Tabitha (the Maltese) downstairs in the gameroom.  1) the cat litter box is down there and 2) everytime I let Tabitha stay upstairs she pees in my livingroom or poops, for some reason I don't find that downstairs.  They stay downstairs at bedtime and when we go out.  Misty is crated at night and when we're not home and I keep her crate upstairs off the livingroom since she likes to herd the cat, we figured if we put her downstairs it may drive Misty, Tigger (the cat) and us crazy!  LOL  Otherwise, the house is like the funny farm of animals with the biggest "nut" (me) leading the pack!

All my babies sleep in kennels at night but my old girl and my lab.  In the day time

the get the run of the place. Except when I have to do arrons I do kennel them

 because i dont trust my neighbors.  Nasty people!  You know i got chastized

by a breeder that my dogs did not live in a kennel situation.  I told her why should

they there not just dogs to me there my Babies!

I must have missed this-----Weather permitting,our dogs always go with us, they have a bed in the SUV and water. When at home, full run of the house.

All of my dogs have free run of the house when I am away.  They're trained not to enter the kitchen or dining room, & they have proved themselves trustworthy. 

When I am home, the dogs have access to the yard.

Bevo, Thea, Shooter, & Schatzi sleep in bed with me nightly.  Chyna sleeps on her bed in my bedroom.  Brinxx drags her bed from the den, to the foyer (every night) to sleep close to the front door.  (It's a vicious cycle!)

My standard poodle, Chaz stays with his handler most times, but when he comes home, he sleeps in his crate, but when I am home he is out and about...He is crated when I leave.  My mini used to be crated when I left, but he proved himself to me on trials and now goes uncrated without any problems.  My toy gets too stressed in crates, so she stays out.  They romp and play in the yard when I am present, and come inside with me.  My mini and toy sleep with me, but in smaller beds get booted to the floor.

Karen

Sasha has run of the house, 24/7.  This summer, she also had free access to the yard through a hole in the screen door, but now that the weather is cooling off we bought an actual cat door and Sasha is only in the yard if we're here to open and close the door.  She likes to sun herself, and on a decent day will sometimes spend a few hours lounging on the patio furniture or in a nice warm pile of dirt.  

When we aren't home they all stay in the heated garage where they all have beds, food and water. When we are home they are either in the house with us or running and playing in the fenced in yard. At night the min. longhaired dachshund sleeps at the foot of our bed. The poodle gang sleeps on the floor in beds in our room. Sometimes someone, usually Sierra, tries to sneak up on the bed, carefully and slowly. I pretend that I don't know she is there. When my husband finds her he usually has a word with her. When he gets up in the moring to take his shower everyone jumps in our bed. One night recently Sierra woke my husbend up to go outside, when he didn't respond she pulled the covers off him. He got up and walked out of the room to let her out, she then jumped on the bed and took his place. She had no intention of going outside, just wanted him to get up. Gotta luv poodles, what clowns. It's hard to think of them as dogs, they really are our children.