A dog Crate has a purpose...ONLY ONE! To keep Dogs contained while their uncaring owners are at work!
Why "uncaring"? Because THEY(The Dog's Owner) refuses to take the TIME to house train their pet.
House Training involves three things:
1.) Toilet training the animal to use the outdoors(House Breaking a new dog or puppy).
2.) Teaching the dog where HIS boundaries are within YOUR home.(Training your Dog or puppy)
and lastly,Providing the Dog with enough interaction and involvement in your life,so it KNOWS what you expect of it such as Not to chew woodwork and do other damage to your property.
If your home is a house full of breakable Fu-Fu,designate an area thats FOR your dog to be free within,Use Petgates across doorways to do this.
A Crate was designed for one thing only,to "Housebreak" your Pet,it isnt a "Lounging box" not is it comfortable or humane to leave a pet in a box for 14 hrs while you go to work.
What good is YOUR Rotweiller,if hes inside a steel cage on the floor if someone breaks into your home?
Crating an animal negates the purpose of owning a Dog. Would YOU like to spend 14-16 hrs every day in a steel "Cage"(or a cheap plastic one!) just large enough(if the dog is lucky!) to turn around in?
Too many Dog owners are using Crates as an excuse to NOT bother with interacting or training their animal.
what are YOUR thoughts on "Animals kept in CAGES"?
Why "uncaring"? Because THEY(The Dog's Owner) refuses to take the TIME to house train their pet.
House Training involves three things:
1.) Toilet training the animal to use the outdoors(House Breaking a new dog or puppy).
2.) Teaching the dog where HIS boundaries are within YOUR home.(Training your Dog or puppy)
and lastly,Providing the Dog with enough interaction and involvement in your life,so it KNOWS what you expect of it such as Not to chew woodwork and do other damage to your property.
If your home is a house full of breakable Fu-Fu,designate an area thats FOR your dog to be free within,Use Petgates across doorways to do this.
A Crate was designed for one thing only,to "Housebreak" your Pet,it isnt a "Lounging box" not is it comfortable or humane to leave a pet in a box for 14 hrs while you go to work.
What good is YOUR Rotweiller,if hes inside a steel cage on the floor if someone breaks into your home?
Crating an animal negates the purpose of owning a Dog. Would YOU like to spend 14-16 hrs every day in a steel "Cage"(or a cheap plastic one!) just large enough(if the dog is lucky!) to turn around in?
Too many Dog owners are using Crates as an excuse to NOT bother with interacting or training their animal.
what are YOUR thoughts on "Animals kept in CAGES"?
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Re: Crating Dogs.
Sat, June 3, 2006 - 7:28 PMI think you are over-reacting. I think any dog training aid can be used to abuse an animal. I don't think you need to get on here making wild accusations against anyone who crates their dog.
The tip off is "uncaring owners" How do you know they are uncaring? Have you personally investigated every situation where someone crates a dog?
And how do you know that people are leaving their dogs for 14 hours? I think that would be inhumane. Perhaps you should speak to the person who is crating their dog for 14 hours...instead of coming to this tribe and ranting as if everyone who crates a dog leaves it crated for 14 hours...
I hope you use a more reasonable tone in speaking to whoever leaves their dog crated for 14 hours. Putting them on the defensive is not going to be in the best interests of the dog...
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Re: Crating Dogs.
Sat, June 3, 2006 - 8:17 PM10 years with the SPCA and I think I KNOW the difference bettween a "Crate Trained Dog" and a Captive Animal thank you! -
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Re: Crating Dogs.
Mon, June 5, 2006 - 5:46 AM
*head tilt* I don't know who you are mad at. I have a couple of bed places, and one of them is in a crate that is *always* open. I like it. I sometimes take one of my rawhide treats or other goodies, and go in there to chew on it. It's comforting to me.
And crates are really a safe way to travel sometimes, too.
Please rethink this through. I think you are mad at one or two people. Please do not condemn all the good doggie owners out there who treat their doggies really well.
Mommie says "genralizing" and "assuming" can be bad things.
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Re: Crating Dogs.
Mon, June 5, 2006 - 8:42 PMSpeaking of training a dog to use the outdoors:
I just got a 10-month old puppy. She spent most of her time indoors at her previous house and was wee pad trained. I would like her to go outdoors like the 2-year old we have. What's the best way to do this? The other dog, once he got the "don't poop in the house" idea down has the whole house as his crate now, so I'm not sure if crate training is an option.
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Re: Crating Dogs.
Tue, June 6, 2006 - 9:39 AMTake a used wee-pad outside. Take the ten month old out at his/her usual bathroom times and encourge the dog to use it outside, When the dog does, then praise it enthusiastically. Take the dog out often, after it has drunk water or after mealtimes. Switch over to an unused pad or make the used pad smaller and smaller til the dog gets the idea that outside is the place to go...
Give it lots of opportunities to go outside and lots and lots of praise and/or treats when it does....
Do you have a doggy door? Where do you put the wee-pad? Get it as close to the outside as possible and watch the dog like a hawk so you can get the dog outside when it has to go...
Expect that the dog is not going to re-learn without a few mistakes so it is up to you to make sure it succeeds. This is gonna take time and effort on your part..do not punish the dog for failure, just clean up and reward it when it does the right thing(going outside).
If the puppy makes a lot of mistakes, keep it in a room where accidents are easy to clean up after, but make sure that it does not have an opportunity for accidents...in other words take it out a LOT and praise it exuberantly when it goes outside so it knows that that makes you happy. A command for peeing and BMing outside helps too. Pick something like pee or poo or any innocuous word. 'Cause you don't wanna be outside in public saying "SHIT! Rover!" LOL!
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