Oh I totally understand concerns ^^. I was a nervous wreck the first week she came home and I'm gradually easing up on my mother henning lol She has a crate and pen, but has come to loath being locked in, she had literally not slept all night and cries constantly, but quiets down and conks out once we let her out. She actually doesn't do bad on free roam (when there's someone inside the house) and we keep the pen open for when she want to go in (and to also feed her food separate from the other doggies) and she pretty much sleeps about half the time. We keep her water dish filled several times through the day using purified bottled water (we don't want her little tummy to deal with all the tap water stuff for now) and she has easy access to it and pees like every 15-30 minutes when awake ^^;;. We keep her penned up when no one is home. We have a pile of blankets and toys in the living room that our other dogs also use and she sleeps/plays there often. She's even gotten pretty good about not chewing things she's not suppose to (the house is mostly puppy proofed, especially when all doors in the hallway are closed, as our house isn't big and it's one story).
She wound up playing all day because of my niece actually (she's 8), when she stays with us every weekend she wants to pretty much play with her most of the time, alot of times even when Kimchi is trying to sleep. Had to get on to her alot cause if she doesn't get to play or pet her while she tries to sleep, she'll pace around her pen or stick close to it (which keeps waking her up). She's a good girl and all, but we've had times were we all had to keep giving her talks about moderation X.x; but she's at least gotten to where she's not literally running and jumping around Kimchi. I mentioned to her that she can get shaky and to give her a pea-size of nutri-cal, so when she told me she was shaking some and gave it to her, I told her that was good of her. So aside from the weekend over-activity, we keep things mild with her and she actually does great
the only thing with the free roaming that's an issue is the potty training and occasionally almost tripping on her ^^;
But yea, we've had her on canned/wet food all this time and only today tried to give a serving of crushed dry cause she hasn't eaten as much for a bit and kept trying to dig in the full dry kibble. So was wondering when's a good time to let her have her way ^^