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[quote=Anonymous]A general rule of thumb is that a dog can be left alone for one hour for every month of age, up to 12 hours. So an 8 month old puppy should be able to go about 8 hours without a trip outside.

Until your dog can be trusted unattended out of the crate--and that means trusted not to soil the house or chew on something inappropriate--it is safer for the dog to be crated.

There are things you can do to get the dog through the destructive phase faster. Exercise is possibly the most important. Tired dogs are good dogs, as they aren't as bored, thus they are less destructive. Letting them know that you are in charge makes them less neurotic and more calm. A good trainer can help you figuring this out (we didn't realize we were doing things that let our dogs believe that they were still alpha, which made them more difficult).

We also found that our first dog became more more content when he could see outside. When he was in the playroom (basement, high windows), he couldn't see out and he chewed everything in site if we left him out of his crate (remote controls, straw hats, rolls of paper towels....). Once we let him have free run of the house and he could look out the front windows, we (almost) never had any problems.[/quote]

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