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Originally Posted by Zeus is Loved  ... allow us to stay at their house. |
Awww Love it.
If you can call it that, we crate-trained our late senior, Katy, when she was a pup. She had been pee-pad and grass trained before we picked her up. I don't recall that we ever had to close the door to her crate. The breeder gave us a blanket that had been in her puppy playpen. We kept the blanket in the crate.
When Katy was older, we bought a few oversized soft sided crates. They were large enough to hold her little fleece beds. We never closed the doors. Once or twice a day she would wander in to one or the other and take a snooze. I thought of these as her space.
Her original crate was good sized. My niece has commandeered that crate for her +/- seven year old +/- 40 pound dog, Maggie. Maggie loves it--she's stashed all of her little stuffed "babies" there, keeping them safe from their other, larger dog.
I doubt Maggie will want to give that crate up. I'm looking at X-pens now.