Lacey has her own den and Mandy has a crate. Lacey likes her den better than Mandy likes her crate and will even go hide and go to sleep in it sometimes when we are home.We only lock the dogs up when we are not home. Someday that may change but Lacey "seriously" cannot be trusted loose when we are not home. Mandy because of her heart cannot be running loose although I don't think she would do anything wrong if she was loose.
My hubby locks them up when he leaves for work in the morning and they go to there den/crate without him even having to tell them. We both work dayturn but luckily different hours so at least it's not a long day for them.