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Originally Posted by tammys  I have a question, and I tried to figure out how to ask it without it sounding rude, but couldn't figure out a way, so please don't take this wrong, but I'm curious about something:
I have only ever had animals for pets, so I am wondering what being championed has to do with sleeping in a crate, and not on a doggy bed, (like our dogs), or some place uncrated. |
There's special precautions that you take when you're growing coat and showing a dog, you protect everything about them. Show dogs are raised a bit different. My dogs only sleep on Satin, aren't allowed on furniture, or carpet, and putting them in a crate (whether a pet or show dog is for their benefit,) to keep them safe and from wandering around the house during the night and getting hurt. And I wouldn't want them sleeping in my bed with the possibility of them jumping from the bed and breaking a leg or me rolling over and hurting them.
There are pet owners that crate their dogs at night, the safety of the dog. As well as crating them when no one is around to watch them. Now the crates my yorkies are in are huge, and of wire, they have a satin doggy bed, water bottle and feeding dish. It's their bedroom. Dogs are den animals and their crate is their den.
Don't get me wrong my dogs are pets too. They are allowed to be free and be a dog. And at one time prior to showing, I was a pet owner and felt crating a pet was cruel. Not so anymore.