Is it wrong to have your dog sleep in a crate in a separate room?

[Anonymous]

My six year old dog sleeps in her crate every night. The breeder insisted on it. Don’t attribute human feelings to a dog. Dogs that have been crate trained like it - it feels like a den and is a safe place for them.

[Anonymous]

The rescue told us to start puppy’s crate on another level of the house for potty training. Puppy is trained now but we haven’t moved her. We have a baby monitor and know when she needs us. She seems perfectly content and goes right in her crate when she’s tired. I’m hoping this might help when we have to go back to the office that she’s used to not being next to us 24x7.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only Americans want their dogs in the bedroom. Seriously. The dog is fine in a crate in the mudroom.

In my EU country people take their dogs in restaurants and shops. To be sure, dogs here are much more well-trained than American dogs, but my point is that America is certainly not the only country that loves its pets.

Is that because everything in the EU is better than the US? I’m so tired of these micro aggressions from euro people. And wannabe euros. They come out on every topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only Americans want their dogs in the bedroom. Seriously. The dog is fine in a crate in the mudroom.

In my EU country people take their dogs in restaurants and shops. To be sure, dogs here are much more well-trained than American dogs, but my point is that America is certainly not the only country that loves its pets.

There is an enormous difference between walking into a restaurant or shop and sleeping in a human bedroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jeez Louise. I grew up with dogs and have a dog now and none of them have ever slept in our bedrooms. They are/were all very well loved and happy. I am most puzzled by the poster(s) who seem to think it is borderline abusive not to let a dog in bed with you. My housekeeping standards are not as high as they should be, but yuck to a dog in my bed.

Yes, so disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeez Louise. I grew up with dogs and have a dog now and none of them have ever slept in our bedrooms. They are/were all very well loved and happy. I am most puzzled by the poster(s) who seem to think it is borderline abusive not to let a dog in bed with you. My housekeeping standards are not as high as they should be, but yuck to a dog in my bed.

Yes, so disgusting.

When people say in the bedroom, they don't necessarily mean in the bed unless they said IN THE BED. They mean on a dog bed or in a crate in the room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I think it is wrong. Dogs are social animals who bond with their families (packs). I don't think someone who makes their dog sleep alone in a crate, away from the pack, should have a dog at all.

I say this as someone who doesn't even like dogs. I'm a cat person, and even I would not do that to a dog. I think the purpose of a dog/cat is that it is part of the family and brings pleasure to the whole family, and letting your furball snuggle up in bed with you or your child is the best.

Can't you compromise and get the dog a bed you can put on the floor in a bedroom, so that he can be around his people?

This is the funniest comment I've read in ages. This poster is ludicrously hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I think it is wrong. Dogs are social animals who bond with their families (packs). I don't think someone who makes their dog sleep alone in a crate, away from the pack, should have a dog at all.

I say this as someone who doesn't even like dogs. I'm a cat person, and even I would not do that to a dog. I think the purpose of a dog/cat is that it is part of the family and brings pleasure to the whole family, and letting your furball snuggle up in bed with you or your child is the best.

Can't you compromise and get the dog a bed you can put on the floor in a bedroom, so that he can be around his people?

This is the funniest comment I've read in ages. This poster is ludicrously hilarious.

You must have been replying to another post. This one seems like a sincere post and wasn’t funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bigger problem is your husband sounds like he’s mean. What kind of dog? That’s way too old to be sleeping in a crate where’s he locked up. At that age if you still have a crate the dog just uses it as a bed. Also by that age why isn’t do sleeping in a proper dog bed in someone’s room (I won’t ask why he isn’t sleeping in someone’s bed because the answer is obvious).

Poor dog.

I totally agree.

[Anonymous]

Dogs are extremely social and want to be with their pack at all times. Just because they're not complaining, doesn't mean that they're not lonely.

You should buy a dog bed and put it out in ther hallway outside of yours and your kids rooms if he won't let the dog sleep in your rooms.

At the very least, he'll be a guard dog -- and by that I don't mean an "attack dog", I mean if someone breaks into the house or messes with your cars outside, your dog will hear it immediately and alert you. Immediately.

A dog in a crate, in the mud room is just sad.

Why does your husband get the final say?
I don't understand that logic, isn't marriage a compromise?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeez Louise. I grew up with dogs and have a dog now and none of them have ever slept in our bedrooms. They are/were all very well loved and happy. I am most puzzled by the poster(s) who seem to think it is borderline abusive not to let a dog in bed with you. My housekeeping standards are not as high as they should be, but yuck to a dog in my bed.

Yes, so disgusting.

Who said sleeping in their bed???
Everyone here has said sleeping on a DOG BED in the bedroom.

Reading comprehension, try it sometime.


OP, 16 months is by far way too long to be sleeping in a crate, crates are usually reserved for housebreaking.

[Anonymous]

Your husband sounds horrible.

[Anonymous]

This is fine. I wanted and allowed our Goldens to sleep in our room (we had her bed and an open crate she’d had forever), and one of them always slept outside our room at the top of the stairs, and the other one slept with her back to the front door.

[Anonymous]

So many weird posts. I let my dogs sleep in the bedroom because I want it that way, but there is no obligation to do so. Human children sleep in their own rooms, too!

[Anonymous]

My dog loves her crate. She goes right to it and jumps in. It’s on the first floor. Our bedrooms on the second floor. She’s fine. But it’s not the laundry room which tends to be cold.