Re: Why the mania for crating dogs?

[FrancesMember]

Original poster, here…
Marlowe (American foxhound mother, Jack Russell father who shot above his weight class & won) has self-chosen favorite places: inside the kneehole of my vanity; his personal ottoman in the living room, next to the window so he can see when we come home; and – when he’s feeling a little overloaded – my bathroom next to the sink (preferably in the dark). The bathroom is also his place of choice when the Navy gun-testing grounds across the river start test-firing their new naval cannons.
The dog crate (which he will not use) got more use as an isolation room when I got some female cats spayed.