Thanks Dixie--I'm starting to think the same thing. We thought the crate would be convenient, especially for traveling, and we read all this stuff about how much dogs love crates. But I just called my neighbor (I'm at work half-day today), and he's still yelping, 2.5 hours after we left. I think he's lonely, and probably still scared, but I do wonder if he'd be yelping if he wasn't in the crate (just baby-gated off).

My husband has very mild dog allergies, so we really don't want Murphy to sleep right next to our bed, but we'll try to put his dog bed in our doorway--maybe that will be better.

We just want him to be happy!