The Basics You Need to Know When Crate Training a Puppy
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Crate training is known to be the most efficient method for puppy house training. You will need a crate when crate training your puppy. You can’t keep an eye on your puppy all the time, so you need to confine her activity to an alloted space for a short period of time. Your puppy should remain in her crate all the time, unless she’s eating, playing, or when you are taking her for a potty break outside.
The crate serves as your puppy’s den, which is a place where your puppy feels safe and secure, and enjoying spending time in, whether she’s sleeping, napping, or simply needs to be alone. Based on dogs’ natural dislike of soiling their sleeping area, your puppy will not want to soil her own resting quarters, so she will hold her pee and poop until she’s let out of the crate.
How to pick a crate?
Choosing the right size of crate for your puppy is very importantI. If the crate is too large, your puppy will comfortably use one end as her sleeping area, and the other end as her toilet. This then defeats the whole purpose of crate training your puppy, and will set back the house-training process for several weeks!
With regard to selecting a crate, choose one that has enough space for your puppy to easily stand up, turn around and lie down. But don’t worry, you don’t have to keep purchasing new crates as your puppy grows and increase in size. If you can buy just only one crate and use it until even your puppy gets bigger, you’ll save a lot of money in the long term.
Get a big wire crate fit for an adult dog, then use dividers to block away unneeded space to make the crate seems smaller for your puppy. Boards or wire grilles serve well as dividers. When your puppy needs a larger area as she increases in size, you can then slide the dividers back to adjust for more space. Alternatively, you can build a crate yourself and replace it with a larger model as your puppy grows.
Making the crate inviting
You can make the crate a welcoming and inviting place for your puppy to go. You may lay a layer of thick blankets in the crate, and also place inside a chew or some toys for your puppy. The crate entrance should be invitingly open at all times, but should be securely closed when your puppy is inside.
Remember: before your puppy is fully house broken, you wouldn’t want to give her total freedom in the house to avoid soiling incidence. If you let her wander freely in the house before she’s fully house broken, you’re like ‘approving’ her to do her business anywhere she wants to. And every time she does this, it’ll be easier for her to do it again.
Where to put the crate?
Whenever you crate train your puppy, keep the crate close to you. The best spot to place the crate is the center of family activity, usually the kitchen or the living area. With your puppy in the crate close to you, you’ll find that the house breaking your puppy process is easier, as you can keep tabs of your puppy every moment. In addition, it helps foster the connection between you and your pooch. Your puppy needs to feel that she’s a part of the family now, and that she’s not isolated from everyone.
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