Overcoming Puppy Crate Training Problems
Crate training your dog is essential to house breaking your dog.
It is best to begin crate training while your dog is still a puppy; if you wait until later your adult dog may have developed undesirable habits which may be difficult to change.
Directly following basic obedience training is the recommended time to begin to crate train your puppy.
It is important to state that crate training your puppy is not the equivalent of putting your puppy in a jail cell, although some dog owners may feel that way initially.
After properly adjusting to its crate, your pet will prefer the privacy of its crate for sleeping, eating, and relaxing.
Similar problems may be encountered by dog owners when they begin crate training which they don’t know how to solve.
The following are some of the problems dog owners have encountered during crate training and some solutions.
Starting puppy crate training at the same time as potty training and obedience training.
If a puppy is unable to following an obedience command, some pet owners mistakenly place the puppy in its crate.
Avoid using the crate following a training failure so the puppy does not view confinement to the crate as a form of punishment.
Puppies may avoid the crate because they feel they are being deprived of companionship with their owners.
Putting your puppy’s food next to its crate, and creating a comfortable place for your puppy to rest and sleep, helps your puppy see positive aspect of the crate rather than feel isolated.
After the first few times when the puppy is place in its crate, begin to guide the puppy to the crate until it is able to enter on its own.
Puppy owners commonly encounter during crate training that their puppy does not want to stay in the crate.
It may be that there is some problem with the crate itself rather than the puppy’s preference for play or other interaction.
When your puppy wants out of the crate even when it is hungry and/or sleepy, investigate how the crate may be changed to be more comfortable.
A puppy’s crate should be a private haven for your puppy; a comfortable space of its own.
A dog will begin to seek out its crate on its own once it learns that it has a defined place where it can be free to sleep or eat without interference by others
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