Since we got Harlea my wife has been taking her to work with her the 3 days a week she works. Now the time has come for Harlea to start staying at home with me more. As I work from home and spend a lot of time on the phone I didn't want to keep her locked up in her crate all day while I was working but couldn't spend the day chasing her around so I had to find something else. To my surprise I was able to find a large doggie play pen for her. Currently it is setup in my living room for today as my daughter will be keeping an eye on her but I will be moving it to my office in the next few days. We let let he play in it for a bit after we set it up and she had a good time. In the normal configuration it is roughly 21 sqft of area for her and she has all her toys and cooling pad in there as well. I know some people are against things like this and that's ok. She will be in and out many many times during the day but I needed to be able to keep her from destroying things in the house during times I couldn't keep a strict watch on her.