At what age did you stop crating at night?

[Wendy]

My husband wants to stop crating the pups at night and just leave them loose in our bedroom however we have 2 little kids who come into our room so we can't shut Motta and Miley in our room. M & M are 20 weeks now.

a little more background... We take them to work right now during the day. We do have a huge XXL crate that they share but Dh wants to take that down and put them in our large master bathroom to give them more room when we leave during the day or evening or whatever...
Anywho.. they have never chewed furniture although sometimes they steal one of the kids toys from the toy box even though they have thier own toys!! they do bark to wake us up when in their crate around 6 am usually. THey are pretty well potty trained.. have never pooped in the house and only pee in the house usually maybe 1 time a week.

Am I crazy to trust them? They are calm and wonderful ponies.. I mean puppies :) My only complaint is that they don't "come" to their name yet. We need to work on that.

[Wendy]

We started letting them loose in the house 8/8/09 (during the night and evenings/weekends when we run out ) and we have had 2 carpets picked at so far while we were sleeping but that's it. I caught Motta in the act the last time so I think the problem is solved!! lol... No accidents yet! I too come home scared running around the house looking for pee or poop or something destroyed!! i also have been pleasantly surprised.