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Hello! In response to your question..I only crate little Gizmo when I'm at work or when I'm not at home. Unfortunately that is about 8-9 hours per day during the week or when my son is home early from school and we might be able to cut that down to around 7 hours. When we get home he is out of the crate until the next morning when I go to work. My buddy sleeps in bed with me. Like Debi, I too live in the midwest and a doggie door isn't an option. My little guy did have some separation anxiety when we were first crate training as I could hear him barking in the house when I left for w

If my house were to catch on fire, whether I'm there or not, I would want the Firemen to quickly be able to rescue my babies. If they weren't crated, no telling where they'd be hiding. I'd hate to think of the outcome with them hiding. At least crated, they have a chance of being rescued. Vicki

As Pam said and from what I learned about crating, it is good for them because it is a cave effect and they just lay there. The difference from us crating and a pet store is that they are in there for probably more than 8-10 hours and they are allowed to potty in their cage. Not to mention they get no real love when and if they are let out, like we do when we get home.

Been thinking a lot about Ozzy the last few days. It's hard to believe I've been in Houston nearly three years already, and he's still there at Dag's. Re-reading the whole thread has me thinking again. I've been looking at the store as our ticket out of the grind, our hope is that we will reach a point where we have multiple locations with employees to work the stores and a good, trusted manager to oversee the bulk of it. I'm working hard to push the new band to be ready to take paying gigs; Francie is talking about doing full band gigs as soon as we're ready and as often as the guys ar