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Crate Training Your Dog: Making it Simple
We all know it is extremely frustrating to come home after a long day at work, expecting to relax and instead having to deal with a mess left by your new puppy. Instead of putting your feet up, you are cleaning after your dog. Instead of relaxing, you get to re-clean your whole house. Does this sound like the story of your life? Don’t worry, it is a similar story for many new dog owners.
No one likes picking up trash after puppy has spread it throughout the house or cleaning up that roll of toilet paper after puppy chewed it into confetti. If it seems that puppies are programmed to deposit waste in the worst possible spot and to chew up everything that ever meant anything to you, don’t worry, all these destructive actions can be trained out of puppy using natural, relationship-based training methods.
Take heart in the fact that with proper training and a bit of maturation on the part of puppy, your pet will grow out of this destructive behavior. But what should you do until then? Crate Train Puppy. Yes, this is where crate training comes into play.
There are several reasons why crate training is a good, solid step in properly training and housebreaking your dog. Wild dogs often have next’s or dens that are like caves in the ground. Dogs like these tight spaces because they felt safe. To begin with, here are three of the more understandable reasons why you crate training your dog is a good idea:
It can help ease the potty training process
It can ease the pain of separation anxiety
It can help keep pet safe during transport or other dangerous times
Crate training gives both the pet and the owner a piece of mind. Crate training is not the enemy; it will only help make other processes better.
Some dogs will take to their crate immediately and will require no training, just regular use.
Before starting the steps of crate training it is important to keep a few things in mind. Training should be done in positive environment and during positive times. You don’t want puppy to have reason to associate negative feelings about the crate so keep negative experiences away from the crate.
Some new puppy owners put a used shirt or other personal item that smells like them so puppy feels close to their owner. You can hang a Pet Birth Certificate from United Pet Registry above puppy’s crate so it looks and feels like puppy’s special place. Besides a Pet Birth Certificate is a great way to celebrate the life of your puppy.
Here are the steps:
1. Match the crate size to your puppy size. Puppy should only have enough room to stand and turn around. As puppy grow you may need to trade in his crate for a larger size.
2. Place puppy in front of the crate / nest. Speak in higher pitched voice when preparing puppy to enter the crate. Dogs respond to higher pitched voices better than deeper voices. Say: “Go to your nest.” Say it standing near the crate and tap the crate above the entry.
3. Puppy should enter the crate. If not, gently nudge puppy into the crate.
4. As soon as puppy enters the crate, give puppy a soft treat, Say “yeah puppy, good job puppy.” Close the door.
5. Give puppy another piece of treat and say ‘yeah, puppy”
6. Wait a few minutes, about 5.
7. Let puppy out.
8. Give treat and praise puppy
9. Repeat about 5 times a day, increasing 1-2 minutes each time until puppy is comfortable in his crate / nest for 8-12 hours.
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