Where do your dogs stay?

• 11-03-2007 4:52 PM

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  bragg1120 Joined on 07-13-2006 good ole West Virginia - Let's Go Mountaineers! Posts 1,468 Points 385

  Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact Gracie and Trixie both have the run of the house and yard. The yard is fenced in and I have locks on both gates to prevent someone leaving them wide open. They also have a doggie door so when they gotta go... they can go! Trixie sometimes stays with my Dad while I'm at work. She likes playing with their doggie... Gracie doesn't like him so much so she stays home and I shut the doggie door until I get home. Even then, I worry about something happening and that door being shut... or if I leave it open, I worry about someone coaxing her out of the yard. Sheesh... I worry either way! Missy We're so deeply affected by their absence because our lives were profoundly affected by their presence. ~ Tracy (tacran)

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• 11-03-2007 6:53 PM

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  sterlingfan40 Joined on 09-10-2007 Posts 22 Points 0

  Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact 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.

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• 11-03-2007 9:50 PM

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  kaf Joined on 09-10-2007 Chicago Posts 526 Points 185	Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact 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
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• 11-04-2007 9:29 AM

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  georgie4682 Joined on 09-10-2007 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Posts 1,199 Points 425

  Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact 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.  GeorgAnne, Buster (greyhound mix - 14 years), Lady (beagle mix? - 14 Years), Max (GSD/cattledog - 9 years), and Benny (pom - 3 years) - CGC

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• 11-04-2007 10:34 AM

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  GordonsGirl Joined on 09-12-2007 Posts 407 Points 190

  Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact  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!

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• 11-04-2007 1:00 PM

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  prolibertate Joined on 10-26-2007 NY Posts 99 Points 10

  Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact 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. ~ MaryAnn

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• 11-05-2007 7:34 PM

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  Janet808 Joined on 09-14-2007 Pgh. PA Posts 1,688 Points 345

  Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact 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! Handle every situation like a dog. If you can't Eat it or Chew it. Pee on it and Walk Away

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• 11-05-2007 8:02 PM

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  Dtails chihuahua Joined on 11-04-2007 Posts 25 Points 70

  Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact 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! Dtails

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• 11-05-2007 9:59 PM

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  maizysmom Joined on 08-15-2007 Southeast WI Posts 1,468 Points 570	Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact 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. They ask so little and give so much! ~Gloria~
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• 11-05-2007 10:34 PM

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  BEVOLASVEGAS Joined on 07-10-2006 Texas Posts 4,563 Points 640

  Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact 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!) Amanda "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, throughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming --- ' WOW, WHAT A RIDE!!!! ' " - Author Unknown

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• 11-05-2007 11:32 PM

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  kkearney Joined on 11-05-2007 Posts 64 Points 120

  Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact 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

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• 11-06-2007 12:05 PM

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  Dog_ma Joined on 06-25-2007 San Diego County, California Posts 1,357 Points 795

  Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact 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.   "Are you a dog trainer?" "No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night."

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• 11-06-2007 9:28 PM

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  LindaB Joined on 10-23-2007 Maryland Posts 9 Points 160

  Re: Where do your dogs stay? Reply Contact 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. LindaB

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