As most of you know, we got our new yorkie baby about a month ago. Bella's going to be 12 weeks on Monday. I work from home during the day, so even though I'm home and can check on her constantly, I have to keep her in her xpen because a) I can't supervise her all the time and b) I don't trust her with our shih-tzu because while she loves to play with him, he's not really liking it too much. She's a very rambunctious puppy with ALOT of energy. Which means she has a wild nature and, at times, gets a little TOO wild even with herself (she ran into a bedroom door the other morning because she was trying to get in the room, it was dark, she didn't see that it was closed). I want her to be careful, I don't want her to hurt herself or GET hurt playing with Spanky (shih-tzu).
Her pen is pretty roomy for her, has her puppy pads, food and water, plus a TON of toys and her bed with her blankie. Sometimes I can hear her during the day randomly playing with her toys since a couple rattle and one squeaks. She doesn't really yelp/bark too much now that I keep her in the BIGGER pen as opposed to her little playpen that she sleeps in. I kept her in that to keep her closer to me (it's back here) during the day, but she would yelp alot and just destroy it so I figured she'd be happier in her bigger pen in the living room. She seems to be but I feel like such a heel because I have to keep her in her pen and she can't have full run of the house. I know I do it for her own protection, but I STILL feel horrible.
She's out most of the night when there's more than one set of eyes to keep a watch over her and mediate between her and Spanky, and in the morning she runs as well. I let her out periodically throughout the day when I can take a break and either let her run all over the living room or I hold her and play with her with her teething chew toy. I STILL FEEL BAD!!!
Does anyone else have to pen like this? It would just help so much if I knew I wasn't being a bad person doing this to her, and that she wasn't sad.
