All babies should be restricted to a small area of some kind....they can get into way too much, given unsupervised free range of the entire house. All my dogs are crated when I leave the house for work....in case of fire, I do not want the poor babies hiding and firemen not able to find them. the windows in the nursery and in the Yorkie room all have those stickers alerting pets are inside....my precious little useless "pets" are allowed free roam in my bedroom....they all get on my bed and wait for me to get home.
When I first got them, as puppies, I kept them in an ex-pen, where they had more room to play and run around all day....when they became adults, I crated them in large crates, not carriers....these crates are like 26" x 42"....something close to that. Even when I am home, my house inside is "fenced and crossed fenced"....baby gates are used to keep all babies restricted in the sun room area....and all exit doors are blocked by at least 2 sets of baby gates and ex-pens stretched out across the doors, so in the event a dog does get through a doggie gate into a restricted area, they still can not gain access out the front door! It isnt pretty, it isnt a "vision out of Southern Living magazine", and it is certainly a pain in the patootie going around and thru all the barriers, but my babies wont be going out any doors accidently! When company comes or workmen are doing anything inside the house, everyone is crated. |