Hi luckilab!

I started off taking baby steps with mine. First, is being able to go all night without being crated. Then on days, when I knew I could reliably be back home for lunch within a couple of hours, I'd leave'em out in just the bedroom. Making sure anything really valuable was up out of their reach. As they succeeded, I'd increase the duration and worry less about what I'd leave laying around. I would probably give them more access to the rest of the house too, but I know they like to bark at people walking by on the sidewalk. So they still just stay in my bedroom. Plenty of room in there, so I don't think they're suffering any.

If there had been any failures, then I would have taken a step backwards with them to a successful point and then slowly tried to build up again towards more freedom.

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