We rarely leave SoCo alone as I work from home, so it's usually 15-60 minutes at most. He does have free roam during that time and while we sleep. We had to leave him alone a couple weeks ago for over 12 hours (family party that I couldn't back out of) but he was left with food, water, toys, pillow and newspaper in the kitchen, which we had gated off.
If I return to working outside the home (don't see it happening) I'd evaluate him then to see what we'd do. As I don't see it happening until he's well out of the puppy stage, he'd most likely have free roam. Our previous 2 did with no serious problems. Of course, we closed off the bedroom, bathroom (Jager was a toilet paper runner/shredder - funny to find a whole roll of TP unravelled through the house till you have to clean it!) and kitty litter was off limits. |