Quite frankly JSR I do wonder what exactly you are hoping to achieve with your consistent rants regarding crates and pens etc. If it is your purpose to simply denegrate people for not conforming to your idea of animal treatment then you are succeeding.

You do not know where my dog has come from and you do not know what could have happened to him if we hadn't adopted him. I would never use either of these points to justify any form of mis-treatment of an animal but for you to quite openly call me a bad dog owner is not acceptable.

This moral high-ground that you take with anyone that uses crates or pens with their dogs is completely ridiculous and un-founded. I have no problem in accepting that people in general, never mind dog owners alone, have differences in opinion hence my initial reply to you. However for you to question my decision to adopt my puppy when all you know of me is a few posts on an internet forum is outrageous.