I found with my female that she kept herself very clean. She did drip some but not badly. The worse time was at night when she slept..so I would put a towel on her bed at night. She was just spayed at 8 due to a false pregnancy & suspected pyometra.

I have had other intact females thru the years. Not that big a deal. Although my little poodle did wear newborn pampers because she was allowed on the furniture. LOL She looked pretty funny in them.

I did still take her to the field until she was about at a point that she would stand for a male...then she was only out in my 6 ft fenced yard...never without me there. We don't really have a problem here in my area of town with loose dogs.
If you don't have absolutely solid OB on your dog I would suggest they be out in public at all for the 21 days that they are in heat. My dogs are never out in the yard unless I am home & out with them or out on the deck or in the kitchen keeping an eye on them. I won't even leave them in the kennel in the fenced yard & leave the house. Way too many things can happen.

I have had 3 different intact males here with her. Not a big deal to keep them separated. Only one was a problem for 2 of her heats (why those 2 x ..who knows what got into him) & he went to a working dog friends, for a couple of days that she would stand for him, those 2 times. So their proxsimity to the female will depend on the individual male. I had one that was best settled if kept in the same room with her. Others that needed to be in another room.

I've never noticed a dramatic difference in any males Danni hangs around.

I hate heat cycles, simply because Danni comes in often and always when we're competing. But other than that it's no biggie.

I lay towels down on the carpet she has to walk over. Luckily everywhere in my house but the bedrooms are tile.

She has a place command on her bed outside her crate anyway so if she's going to bleed a lot it'll be there. And then I just wash it.

She keeps herself very clean. It's really nice.

Conan has no interest in her, but he also hates her, haha. So I don't know that there's anything that could make her enticing to him.

I felt sorry for Logan's sister Ali when she was in heat. She would turn her tail for anyone or anything and whine, poor thing. Unless I had her engaged in PREY drive she was best off left in her crate or run.

As far as males go...yeah I would NOT leave a trail to the house either. What I did with Ali was drive far from the house and walk her at a park. She was never left unattended outside either etc.

Isn't Gambit sort of...well...less interested in girls? xD