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I work 3rd shift and my husband normally stays home with Rascal at night, while I am with him during the day.

Well Tom(my husband) is leaving for Iraq on Tuesday and wont be back home for about 2 years.

My family is taking my daughter at nights for me, but my dogs have to stay at home. Missy my mixed breed who is 1 1/2 years old will be fine, she is potty trained and will be okay on her own.

Rascal on the other hand is 4months old (today) and has never been on his own for that long. See I will be leaving at about 7:30pm and wont be back home untill 6:45am.

I have never put Rascal in a kennel or Crate. Never needed to, I have always givin him and missy run of the house any time I have had to go anywhere.

Rascal is not completly potty trained, He still makes accidents. My concern though is that normally Tom would have let Rascal outside to do his buisness at least 2 or 3 times before I come home in the morning. Well now that no one will be home at that time he wont be able to.

I dont know what I should do, Buy a puppy playpin to put him in, buy a gate and keep him in the kitchen or bathroom, or buy a kennel and keep him in there. I dont know which one is better for him. My dad is trying to talk his landlord into letting him have Rascal at nights but his landlord is refusing to alow pets in the home.

My dad is going to try and move closer to my home so that he can go over there at night. All I need to do is find something else to do for Rascal untill that time.

Does anyone have any suggestions????? I just want Rascal to be happy and for this not to be hard on him. He is everyones baby and is use to being in bed with us at night, and having Tom or myself with him night and day.

Sorry this is so long I just want to expain my situation and try and find something to make my baby happy. I have enough on my plate to worry about right now and i just dont think I can handle having to worry about my baby while I am at work.