Archive for January 2011
Well, I know this was not such a great idea, but I did it anyway. I had purchased a crate that would be the right size for Lua (4 month old Chihuahua), but I ended up taking it back and returning it so that I could get a pink one because I thought it was cute. (It’s wire, but it’s pink instead of black.) The only bad thing about it was that it was WAY too big for her and it’s going to be too big forever. It’s about the size of crate someone should use for a Shiba Inu or a dog of similar size. Anyway, I bought it anyway because it came with a divider. Well, the divider doesn’t go all the way up to the top of the crate. There’s a gap of about four inches. Now that she’s older she’s getting curious and is trying to climb over the top of it to get to the other side! I’ve caught her a couple of times.
Is there anything I can do/should do?
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I am getting a Labrador puppy and I want to crate train her from day 1. My question is, what size crate do I get? I know that the puppy’s crate shouldn’t be too big or they will ‘mess’ in it. I know that for crate training to work for house-breaking a puppy the crate shouldn’t be much bigger than the dog. I also know that labs grow FAST and I don’t want to buy something expensive that she will just outgrow. I was hoping I’d find a crate that had a "grow with me" divider or something, but I didn’t see anything like that at Petco or Petsmart. Does anyone know if such a thing exists? What size crate should I buy? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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So we (my boyfriend and I) just got a new puppy, she was my christmas gift. She is a female pug, about 9 weeks old. We have another pug who is now 2 years old (a male) who we brought home when he was 12 weeks so we have experience with crate training, pugs in particular. My problem is that this little puppy has NO problem pooping and peeing in her crate. She was in a larger crate so I did some research and purchased a divider and made the crate the correct size (only large enough that she can lay down, no extra space) and she still poops and pees, she has no problem laying in it or stepping in it. Our other pug would have rather died than pee or poop in his crate so we’re at a loss for what to do. We are having such a hard time with her because she DOES know that she is supposed to go outside, when we take her out, she pees and poops right away. But she has no concept of "holding it" and we’re not sure the best way to go about teaching her this. I let her out around 7:30 each morning, I feed her, and then I put her back in the crate. When I stop home around 11am to walk her, she has already peed and/or pooped in her crate and I know for a fact that my other pug had no problem holding it for 3 and a half hours. Unfortunately my boyfriend and I do work all day but I am able to come home every few hours to walk her so I know its not an unreasonable time for her to be in her crate. And when I arrive home from work, I do take her on walks and she gets time to play with our other pug (they get along very well) as well as some bonding time with us.
Is this behavior a spiteful thing? Is she too young to understand this concept? Any advice on difficult to crate train dogs would be excellent, specifically pugs if anyone has experience with them, as I know they can be a stubborn breed.
*And before anyone goes off on a rant about crate training, I do believe in this method, it has worked for me and my family for several generations of dogs and my other Pug is perfectly well behaved and trained, thanks to us using the crate. I would like advice specifically on crate training please, not a lecture on why I shouldn’t be using this method, thank you.
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