Many people often only think of stair gates to be used for young children, to prevent them from getting access to dangerous places such as stairs or rooms with equipment in. However, there are a lot of good reasons for using gates when you have animals too. They may need to be protected in the same way as children, from dangerous areas but gates are also useful for other reasons.

One place which it can be nice to keep animal free is the kitchen. However much you care for your animal, no one likes animal hairs in their food and so by keeping them out of this room, there will not be this risk. Some animals may also be tempted to eat any food that might be left hanging around and so having a gate on the kitchen door can prevent this from happening. It may also be a way to prevent dogs from begging for scraps at the table, which some people find very unappealing.

If you have young children in the house it can be sensible to keep them apart form pets at times. This is because young children may not know how to treat an animal kindly and may just think it is a toy. This can be quite distressing to the pet and may make it behave uncharacteristically and so it is wise to keep them apart unless closely supervised.

Some people even use stair gates to prevent their animals getting to the bedrooms. It may seem mean to stop your animal being able to get access to certain parts of the house. But you have to remember that they are smaller than you and therefore need less room and as long as you spend time with them and look after them properly then there is no reason why you shouldn’t have some time apart.