Quote Originally Posted by katladyd View Post
The bathroom or a spare bedroom confinement is much kinder than a cage. My friends who own dogs do caging frequently and I think this is inhumane They say the dogs like it, I don't believe that for a second!
I don't know that I would go so far as to say crating is inhumane. I've never done it w/my dogs but I never felt the need. My cats, on the other hand, love sleeping in their carriers, which are smaller than crates and, of course, they have access to their litter boxes because the carrier doors are open. I think crating for some animals instills in them a sense of security. The people that I know firsthand who crate their dogs are very kind hearted and their dogs don't seem to mind a bit. When I was cleaning houses, I had a client who got a new dog and as soon as he saw me for the first time, he went running to his crate and stayed there. So I talked to him through the crate and eventually he trusted me enough to come out after that. This woman was on the board of the Humane Society in Akron then, so I trusted her judgment.