What a great thread! I've always wondered what other people did. We have a crate in our room for Sadie to use the piddle pad during the night. It has a bed, food, and water in it. We just set her down in it with a toy or bullie stick for our time. I had a poodle a long time ago that was way, way too into "our" time. It was really like she knew what was happening. She would jump up on the bed and start humping anything in sight. We had to lock her out of the room. My husband coined the phrase bed-booting. It's stuck for whenever we want alone time we bed-boot the dog.
