[hotelhyatt]

I don't work because I am a stay at home mom, but with multiple dogs and other pets needing food, water, supplements like fish oil and vitamin E, cages cleaned, fresh veggies prepared for the tortoise and parrot, I think I spend about 1 hour 40 minutes in the morning and again in the evening. If I were working, I would do a walk in the morning, another in the evening and training time.

So, I imagine I would get up, take the dogs walking, feed and water everyone, shower, dress and then head out. I'd get up about 3 hours before I have to leave to make enough time for morning care since that is when I do the bulk of my work on the pets. I am not at all sure I would have the energy for it in the evening!

As for crating, everyone gets let out of the crates, goes potty, comes in to drink their water, goes back in the crates for feeding and a nap (during which I do housework) gets let back out about 1.5 hours later for potty, spends the rest of the day with me, go back into the crates for the evening meal, get let out right away, go potty, hang out until bedtime and then go to bed. I randomly put them in their crates if I have to leave, if I am training one on one, if I am mopping the floors, if a repairman is coming, or if I am repairing something. So, they handle getting crated out of the blue pretty well.