Indoor Pet Gates - Do You Really Want Your Dog In Every Room?

The importance of having indoor pet gates sometimes isn't understood until a costly lesson is learned. When it comes to raising a dog or a puppy there are some things you learn. For example, a puppy should be in a crate when they are home all alone and a dog should be secured in just a portion of your home. We learned that it is best to keep our dogs in our kitchen and family room area, which we can easily do with gates. This keeps the rest of our house much cleaner. We do this because we have no carpeting in either our kitchen or family room.

We now have several dogs and a couple that are getting older. One of them is a 14 year old German Shepherd that still loves life and a being with the family and of course food! But she suffers from arthritis and sometimes will have an accident while deciding if she really has to go outside with the other 2 dogs. These accidents are on our tile or hardwood floor because we have used indoor pet gates to keep them secured in our kitchen and family room area. By doing this is also allows us to keep the rest of the house a little cleaner, because we don't have dog hair all over.

This really didn't work out bad for use because in our house, like many others, the kitchen is probably the highest traffic room in the house. There is almost always someone in this part of our house after work and school. So our dogs get plenty of time each day to hang out with the family. The only reason we were able to do this and not keep them in crates all day is because we invested in some good quality indoor pet gates. The one thing we really needed to makes sure of was that they would be strong and be able to be used with a single hand to open. Because we are a pretty busy family and who wants to take the time to set down what you are carrying to open up a gate. Grocery shopping would become a real pain if we need to set them down to open a gate to the kitchen.

The next step in our process was just taking some measurements of our openings and going shopping. We measured the width and then thought a bit about the height, we do have some big dogs. Our biggest is an English Mastiff, but she really wouldn't be much of a problem. In reality if unless we put up solid wood doors we couldn't confine her if she didn't want to be confined. Lucky for us she is the most well behaved dog we've ever had, except for the occasional pizza theft, but we all have our weaknesses I guess. Anyway we found our gates online and had them delivered right to our house.

Living with pets over the years has been an education, not a cheap one either. I have a 25 year education and I think I have finally gotten to the point where I can raise a dog the right way. I have learned that if you have a young dog and spill food on the carpeting and let is soak in. Then if you leave the house without putting the dog in a crate or locking them up with indoor pet gates that you will know what kind of flooring was used under the carpeting when you return home. I have learned that you never leave a take out cheese burger on the counter, just for a minute while you leave the room, if you planned on eating it!