They do best when they can see you at night. Otherwise, they’ll be crying all night long. I don’t have a lot of room in my bedroom for a crate, so my puppies/rescues have all started out confined with a baby gate in the bathroom attached to my bedrooom. The bathroom is TINY, not much bigger than a crate, but they could see me at night.
Get a smaller crate for the bedroom, and you can use the larger crate in the garage once the puppy grows into it.
Our (adult) dogs stay in the garage during the day while we’re at work/school. If it’s too hot/cold they stay inside, but when it’s “Average” out they go during the day, however not crated.
One thing we did for our bunnies (but may not work with a teething puppy) is take thick gatorade bottles and leave them in the freezer overnight. Put them in with your pet, they’re good for several hours and then ready to refreeze when you get home. Our rabbits were kept in our garage and they loved the water bottles. They’re perfect for cooling a lot of pets down. 
My dog would destroy and possibly eat a Gatorade bottle if I left it in his kennel. 
If I were your breeder, and I learned you were already planning to keep the pup in the garage at night and when you aren’t home, that would be a MAJOR red flag for me, and would make me feel that perhaps you and your home environment would not be right for one of my pups.
But I’m not your breeder.
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I’m having a hard time picturing a house that has an attached garage that’s big enough to house 6 large vehicles and a thirty foot boat, but there’s not enough space inside for a crate that’s big enough for a German Shepard. And in my experience, anytime someone gets a puppy and plans to isolate it from the living quarters “only when no one is home”, the dog ends up being isolated from the family for the majority of the time. This might not be the case in this situation, but I’m seeing some red flags here. Not major red flags by any means, but potential red flags. Maybe it’s just me though.[/QUOTE]
There are lots of other things that would trigger a red flag long before this would be a problem for me. I can relate to the OP - We have spent lots and lots (and lots) of money on buildings for our farm and outdoor activities, and not a darn cent on the house. Our 1800’s farmhouse bedroom would NOT allow room for a crate either - which is why our dogs sleep in the entry way. We can hear them, they are in hearing range and they know where we are.
And when we are not home, my dogs are kenneled in the shed next to each other. The moment we get home, they are with us. Not all dogs get isolated for from the family for the majority of the time.
Take it easy! We all have different priorities. My house and bedroom size is NOT my priority. My barn(s)? Totally different story…
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There are lots of other things that would trigger a red flag long before this would be a problem for me. I can relate to the OP - We have spent lots and lots (and lots) of money on buildings for our farm and outdoor activities, and not a darn cent on the house. Our 1800’s farmhouse bedroom would NOT allow room for a crate either - which is why our dogs sleep in the entry way. We can hear them, they are in hearing range and they know where we are.
And when we are not home, my dogs are kenneled in the shed next to each other. The moment we get home, they are with us. Not all dogs get isolated for from the family for the majority of the time.
Take it easy! We all have different priorities. My house and bedroom size is NOT my priority. My barn(s)? Totally different story… ;)[/QUOTE]
If you’re not going to read my entire post and make an effort to understand the thoughts I conveyed (and clearly you didn’t), please don’t quote it and reply as though you are responding to me.
I live in a teeny tiny vintage 1976 A frame, but also have a 40 X 200 building that was once a manufacturing plant that now houses 12 X 16 stalls, tack room, wood shop, boat storage, tractor storage, ect. So it is possible to have an out of the ordinary set up and do just fine, you just have to modify and adapt.
I am also one to NOT have animals in my bedroom. For one, they would have to walk the spiral staircase to get up there. Who is going to carry them when they get too old to go up and down not their own. And secondly, I am very light sleeper: bed digging, scratching wheezing…it all wakes me up and drives me crazy. My dogs have crates in the downstairs bedroom, it is THEIR bedroom and they are very comfy and content there. Now if I got a tiny puppy I would probably crate it next to my bed until it was housebroke and slowly ween it down to the dog room. But just to say if a person doesn’t have their dog in the bedroom with them they they aren’t good dog owners is wrong. My dogs are very valued members of the family, they just don’t sleep with me, doesn’t mean I don’t love them.
We used to have a daschund and he slept IN the bed with us, until I realized how dirty the sheets got with him in them…so he got banned to the downstairs much to his angst. Besides, he wiggled around and took up too much room.
The other thing, is our upstairs is carpeted and the downstairs just has scatter mats. We did not want any flea eggs up on the carpet and our dogs are clear of fleas because there is nowhere for them to hatch.
But he was a cute little man.
Clean the sheets more often and get a bigger bed shrug no problem. My whole house is carpeted and my dogs don’t have fleas. One’s in the bed and one’s under the bed (on the carpet). I don’t own a crate.
We found room inside the house (our bedroom) for his crate. I was just curious how everyone thought about the idea. Thank you for all your concerns and input. We will be giving him a exceptional home as a part of our family.
For our home it is not traditional. If you imagine an airplane hanger and cut it into thirds. Our living part is on 1/3 and the garage is the 2/3. Weird but I love our home.
I really prefer NOT to have my dog in our bed - and the sheets do get changed, in case you were inferring that they did not! We spoil our pets, but they are pets, not kids. They go out, they get wet, muddy, dusty, etc. and bring in fleas now and then. Just had to answer that one…but, yes, meh, personal choice.
There was a ‘study’ done once, and can anybody remember what the percentage was of people who let their pets sleep on the bed…it was as if most people did by a long margin. Certainly if we did one on COTH it would be high.
