And why or why not?
No right or wrong answers, just thought it would be a fun way to talk about our dogs and different ways we do stuff.
Also partially inspired by @Jobeth with her white carpets
So, do your dogs have free access to the house? All rooms? Furniture?
We've done all sorts of combinations over the years. Ideally the dogs are allowed throughout the house mainly so I don't have to worry about making sure doors are closed or gates up. But realistically at times I've had to block parts of the house off. When we had rambunctious youngsters and an oldie, I gated the youngsters away from the oldie when I wasn't home. And of course idiot youngsters are crated or gated off until they can be trusted.
We've always bought pet-friendly furniture. Dogs allowed on sofas and beds. Though I don't particularly like having a dog in the bed with us, when the kids were little the dogs slept in their beds Penny starts on her bed and sneaks in to our bed at some point at night
Right now Penny has full run of the house and furniture except for one bedroom. We do have a couple rooms where the doors stay shut, but that's just because we don't heat or cool them, not necessarily to keep Penny out.
The bedroom is for our cat who I'm very slowly transitioning to an inside cat so his food and litterbox are in there. I have that room gated, Penny could jump the gate, I've seen her jump way higher, but fingers crossed this works so far.
What do you do with your dogs?
No right or wrong answers, just thought it would be a fun way to talk about our dogs and different ways we do stuff.
Also partially inspired by @Jobeth with her white carpets
So, do your dogs have free access to the house? All rooms? Furniture?
We've done all sorts of combinations over the years. Ideally the dogs are allowed throughout the house mainly so I don't have to worry about making sure doors are closed or gates up. But realistically at times I've had to block parts of the house off. When we had rambunctious youngsters and an oldie, I gated the youngsters away from the oldie when I wasn't home. And of course idiot youngsters are crated or gated off until they can be trusted.
We've always bought pet-friendly furniture. Dogs allowed on sofas and beds. Though I don't particularly like having a dog in the bed with us, when the kids were little the dogs slept in their beds
Penny starts on her bed and sneaks in to our bed at some point at night Right now Penny has full run of the house and furniture except for one bedroom. We do have a couple rooms where the doors stay shut, but that's just because we don't heat or cool them, not necessarily to keep Penny out.
The bedroom is for our cat who I'm very slowly transitioning to an inside cat so his food and litterbox are in there. I have that room gated, Penny could jump the gate, I've seen her jump way higher, but fingers crossed this works so far.
What do you do with your dogs?
