Crate or not?

[RunToEarth]

That is appalling, particularly with a whippet who are such amenable little souls

I know, she wonders why it shreds it's bedding every day and anything within reaching distance from his crate - we've had a couple of heated debates about it and I've been told I am preaching.

I just don't understand why you would get a puppy when you're going to be away regularly for more than a couple of hours a day and it will have no real company most of the time. I could not have a puppy if it were just me, no matter how much I wanted one, because there are a least two days a week when I am in a city office not particularly kitted out for it.