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Update about my dog re: crate
Some of you might remember I was having the issue w/ the our dog, who we crate during the day and at night, waking us up in the middle of the night whining? Anyway, we moved her crate to our room that night it seems to be working well, except for the fact the crate takes up a good bit of real estate. She no longer whines during the middle of the night and doesn't wake us up until 7-8 on weekends which is very nice. We also bought an extra baby gate and are experimenting with leaving her gated in our kitchen while we are gone for shorter increments. Our hesitation with leaving her all day like that is she still has access to a window and floor mats that she previously chewed up, but she's done well so we might start trusting her more with this arrangement. Anyway, just figured I'd update since many of you took the time to give advice 
Re: Update about my dog re: crate
When Jake was a pup, I tied his leash to my bed and put a dog bed on the floor for him. That way he couldn't go on walk-about in the middle of the night, and couldn't jump on the bed either.
Glad things are working out for you guys.
You'll know if she's chewing on the leash. Plus you've established Bedtime, so she'll probably get it. Also, like Jenny said, after a while you might be able to start transitioning her. My dogs took FOREVER to be completely free of crates. They ate a sofa when Ben was 2.
It occured to me while I was out on a run that we have a plasticy lead that would probably be perfect for tying her up and I don't think she'd chew on it. A lot of the issue of her staying out arise from our cats and her interest in them. Part of the reason we got her was b/c she had been in a foster w/ a cat and ignored it, but this wasn't the case with our cats. She's not aggressive towards them, just very interested and follows them around constantly trying to sniff their butts. Plus, one of our cats is kind of douchy and I'm pretty sure he purposely instigates *** with her. She's gotten soooo much better over the past year and a half so I'm hopeful that eventually she won't care what they are doing and we can leave her out, but for now we just have to wait it out.