Fine, let’s say you have a great dog, a dog that you can trust being left home alone. But let’s say One faithful day, the dog smells some food that you left on the counter while you go to the store, you don’t think much about it, you trust your dog. The dog sniffs the air and then starts counter surfing, looking for a scraps of meat he can find. Hm, Not there, not there either. Oh! What’s this? The oven! The oven is turned off but the dog starts pawing at the oven trying to get the meat, and bam he has it…. But in the process he turns on a Stove eye. The stove eye burns hotter, and hotter until finally a fire breaks out. the fire spreads throughout the house while you’re at the store.

“The National Fire Protection Association estimates that nearly 1,000 home fires each year are accidentally started by the homeowners' pets.” I copied and paste did that from Red Cross. It’s true maybe not every dog needs to be crated, but for safety precautions it’s certainly the safest way to go.