My sister doesn't have another dog. She had her's put to sleep d/t cancer in May 2011. And I lost my golden of 10.5 years about 11 days ago.

I'm sure the crate isn't too small for him he weighs about 45 pounds and our crates were the XL size crates b/c I had a greyhound and a 100# golden that went in them and My sister had a 50 pound lab mix for her crates.