Whenever Troy comes over with his dog Munchkin, the first thing I do is grab the pet gates from the mud room and install them in the two kitchen doorways to keep the dog from running loose throughout the house. I used to let Munchkin just run loose throughout the house but a while back he had decided to use the bed in the guest room as his toilet and my wife was clearly very unhappy about that.
I can remember when our kids were young we had used baby gates to keep the kids out of trouble, but they are good for keeping friend’s dogs out of trouble too. My favorite kind of gate is the kind that is pressure mounted but is a “walk-thru” gate that actually has a gate within the gate that you can open and walk through it. They are a little bit tricky to install, but once you have it installed correctly the convenience of being able to walk through it is well worth the extra effort.