Multiple "Dens"?

[Wasseem Sidhom]

I've been reading a lot of discussions in this group and have to admit at how helpful they have been.  We're slated to pick up our puppy next weekend, and still struggling about where to set up his crate.

Let me give you an idea of our living situation.  We're in a 2 story + basement house. 95% of the time, we use the basement as our enter and exit routes. The main floor is the typical living space where we spend most of our time, and the 2nd floor is our bedrooms.

So for the sake of crate training and the typical crating during the day, we thought of putting his crate close to an exit on the main living floor for ease of taking him in and out. However we were thinking of letting him sleep on the floor of the bedrooms level (maybe even in the bedroom itself) in a crate.

Logistically, it's not practical to keep moving the crate every morning and every evening. so my question is...is it ok for him to have two crates? one for sleeping at night and one for hanging out and napping during the day? Are we confusing the heck out of him by doing this, or have others tried this approach and were successful.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Debbie Daniels]

while my pup was young and small I used the same, small crate, (for house breaking you want a small area in the crate ) it was easy to carry from place to place, when she got to be about four months old we went to a bigger crate and at that time I stopped carrying one. She also was pretty well house broken by then so I used a dog bed in the living area and crate in my bedroom for naps and while I worked .... she had three places she could go until she was house broken and that was, crate, right in front of me and outside..she did great ! Good Luck and your doodle is adorable ! 

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

I would do two crates, if you can.

[Ashley, Sadie and Coal]

Two crates sounds like a great plan.  We have two puppies and four crates--two upstairs and two downstairs.  We like the crate with the dividers, so you don't have to buy a crate again when the puppy grows--which is very quickly!