Sharing your home with pet dogs forever makes your home under constant if not frequent restructuring. Our home is shared with both cats and dogs, and to give them free reign over our homes will make it difficult for us and their future owners. Besides having an office within the home calls for putting limitations to access for both kids and fur-kids (ie.-on deadlines!). The most used piece of pet furniture would be dog gates. Mounted, pressure, stand-alone, zig-zag or a folding fence with a wooden caddy these gates play a major role in keeping a neat home with kids and pets. The gates are mostly unmounted on the first floor of the home, while on the 2nd floor, a mounted one at the stairs and bathroom (NO to bowl drinking!).

The gates we prefer are wooden, they don't stick-out like a sore thumb in a house carefully designed. Metal gates can be when used in the kitchen for some homes, since containing pets during meals helps discourage begging or lap sitting. Our covered screened  porch or living room is used mostly as a people/pets recreational area, we hang out together with no pet going beyond the gate. At sleep time or when visitors are in pets go to their own room which is secured by a rather high gate. Exceptions are for pups that are being trained to associate and get used to humans (okay, we can't resist not having fur balls to cuddle up to at night.).

Dog gates play such a great part in this, have never regretted buying. All told, keeping a home in order at the same time having pets trained to stay in an area or even not expose them to negative behavior is not easy without a little help from these things.