AIBU To wonder when people say they never leave their dogs....

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unattended with their DC, how this is even possible when said dog lives in the family home? Surely it is impossible to guarantee that you are always closely supervising. I can't imagine that people take the dog or child with them every time they go to another part of the house to do something. I assume that it is something dog owners just say without it really being true.

"What a faff to constantly use baby gates or have to shut the dog away when you need the toilet or want to cook undisturbed."

It's really not, you don't shut the dog away, you just get it to follow you out the door. I had one baby gate and that was to stop the baby, not the dog.

Dogs prefer to be with you anyway and even the most badly trained dog will come to it's name in the house.

Child gates, if I leave a room DS or dogs leave room with me and they're separated by a gate