Vanessa Vleck Webboard User Reg: 07-20-2009
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Hi Everyone,
My 4 month old GSD is out-growing his 2nd crate (it's the plastic airline approved type). At night I can hear him rolling around and I can tell he needs more room to stretch out. He's already a big guy at 40 lbs.
Right now his crate is in the kitchen (which is also gated off) and we use it regularly when we can not supervise him or if we need to go out somewhere. At night we take the crate into our bedroom and he sleeps very nicely in it until AM. Then we haul it back out again for the day...
My current dilemma is what to do about an even larger crate...anything bigger than what I have now will not fit through the bedroom door, so either I buy 2 new crates and have one for the kitchen and one always in my bedroom or I start having my puppy sleep on a dog bed in my room (tethered at first I would think).
I'm wondering what other dog owners do with their dogs at night..
I let them sleep where they want.
One likes sleeping in the back room on her bed. The youngest likes sleeping against the front door and once in awhile beside my bed.
Niomi Smith Webboard User Reg: 04-20-2009
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If he sleeps good through the night why not just have him sleep downstairs?
I usually have my dogs sleep in my room until they can go through the night with no bathroom break, then they sleep downstairs in their crate, kept in the dinning room.
Also, the wire crates are pretty easy to collapse so they more readily moved than a solid plastic crate.
Anne Jones Webboard User Reg: 04-29-2004
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Maybe you can get a larger sized wire folding crate for the bedroom at night..that way you can fit it thru the door & set it up inside the room & and get another one for the kitchen either plastic or wire.
Craigslist & other free posting web sites have crates at reduced prices all the time.
Stephanie St Julian Webboard User Reg: 10-16-2007
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I dog sleep in the living room. She was in the bedroom until 18 months then her training took a great turn and we finally moved her crate to the living room. Where it has been ever sense.
We have a no pet in the bedroom rule my mom recently bought me really nice sheets so we don't allow any pets in there.
So my dog sleep n the living room. But we did not even think about out of crate tell 2 she will be three next month and has been out of crate 100% of the time day and night for 8 months and out of crate at night for about a year.
My female will either sleep in the living room or on her bed in our bedroom.
My male starts out on my bed, but quickly moves to the floor on his bed for the duration of the night.
Melissa Thom Webboard User Reg: 12-04-2007
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The lab sleeps in her crate in the basement or outside in her doghouse depending on the weather. The eldest papillon has bed privileges, so he usually has my pillow, the other three sleep in their crates next to the bed, and the cocker spaniel who has no bed privileges waits until I doze off to go from her bed to my bed to function as a foot warmer, a body pillow and eventually a head rest.
Natalya Zahn Webboard User Reg: 12-22-2006
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My guy sleeps on his own bed, next to ours. He has 3 beds around the house, as he usually likes to be snoozing in whatever room the people are in... He started in a crate (as a puppy), which was in our bathroom (we had a huge bathroom... it just made sense), but once he was a bit older and trustworthy, we let him have his own bed. The crate stayed set up in the bathroom, and he'd go in once and a while, but his official sleeping spot was from then on his pillow.
I'd avoid having to move a big crate from room to room - for your own sake. The metal/wire ones might be collapsable, but the XL one we have for Oscar is HEAVY - I hate moving it if I don't have to. If you want to provide more than one crate for the pup, get 2, set them up, and leave them be. JMO
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