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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
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We don't have a dog, but I was still living with my parents when they got theirs - before they could trust her in the house alone, she was crated/contained (not really a crate, she was gated in the laundry room) 8 hours during the day, usually with a break in between to go out (my mom could go home during lunch). Then she was locked up at night until she was almost 2.
Now (she's 3?), she's only crated one day every 2 weeks when the cleaning people come. She's out all day and all night otherwise
My answer to this question recently changed since we just adopted a second dog. We crated our first dog for the first 7 months or so that we had her, and since then we've been leaving her out without any chewing/making mess problems and only a couple accidents. She didn't have free reign, we gated off the entire upstairs and part of the downstairs.
Now that we have two dogs, we're letting them adjust to one another, and crating them while we're gone which hasn't been more than 3 hours over the last week. However, it will likely be a max of 6-7 hours.
She was crated 9 hours with a 1 hour lunch break for the first 6 months, then gradually gained more freedom. Our fosters are crated for the work day or overnight until they, too, can be trusted. But if alone, I have to crate and rotate since I can't trust them alone together.
Puppies are always crated when unsupervised- usually 2 hours between breaks. Once 4-5 months they can usually hold it overnight (12-6) with no issues.