Thanks for letting me be part of your community. My wife and I just adopted a 9 week old Husky/Australian Shepherd mix this week and we are working on crate training. It is going great with minimal crying or whining when it is time for bed. This issue I am running into is our work schedules...

I adopted Ava in October. She is a 3 year old Chinese Crested. I have 2 boys, too - Sam a 6 year old Crestie, and Codie a 10 year old Bichon Mix (I adopted Codie 7 years ago and Sam 3 years ago). Both of my boys follow me everywhere and always position themselves so that they may watch my...