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Originally Posted by Cha Cha

All of my dogs eventually have free roam of the house after they have been crate trained. With the exception of our basement. With teenaged girls, there is just too much junk down there for them to get into and get hurt. But it has been different for every dog, but mostly it is after the puppy chewing puppy stage, I'd say around 8 months to 1 year. If I wasn't having a problem with them chewing anymore and getting into this that and the other, and assuming they are house broke, I didn't have any problem leaving them out. My biggest fear was coming home to my furniture cushions destroyed! LOL. I also started leaving them out beginning with short errands, and working up to longer periods of time.

Thanks for the insight.