Crates for Adult JRTs - an excuse for bad owners!

Hi,

Reviewing your forum on crating - the typical response for adult (trained) dogs is :

"What's cruel is allowing a dog to run loose in a house where he may cause damage to himself or his surroundings, and ultimately have to deal with high emotions from an owner that returns to an unhappy situation all the time. Once it's determined that crating is for the good of the terrier..."

To me that reads like a poor apology for making a dog prisoner simply because the owner has a) not worked out how to deal with canine separation anxiety, b) does not exercise their dog enough when home, and c) has not secured their garden and installed a "dog door".

It seems to me that if you do "a","b" and "c" (and even "c" is optional if only away for a few hours) - then there is no need whatsoever for crating a dog - other than being a bad (or more likely lazy) owner.

Certainly that has been my experience to date with a rescue JRT (unless you count making off with the odd bit of mistakenly left out cake)-and I cannot believe that it (or I) are unique.