Crate Training A Puppy For Beginners
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Crate training your puppy can be very beneficial to you and your puppy. Many people mistake the crate as being a place to punish the puppy, when actually this is the safest spot for the puppy to go once the puppy gets used to it.
If you have a crate and leave it open, your puppy will start to go to it when he gets sleepy or when he gets confused. Although puppies tend to like crates, you shouldn't overuse one by allowing him to spend hours at a time inside of one.
Once you puppy gets used to being in the crate at any given time, you can leave him in there for a couple of hours at a time. One example would be if you were not home, you could keep your puppy in the crate, which will also aid in the puppy not destroying the house.
So when you are on the way to pick up your puppy, you should already have a crate set up in your home for when the puppy arrives. When it comes to the crate placement, any centralized area where there is not a lot of walk through traffic would be ideal.
When you bring the puppy home, you should put him inside the house and allow him to start searching for the crate. Leave the door to the crate open, and the puppy should start to wander in and out of it. You can also put a toy or dog treat inside the crate, to give your puppy extra incentive to enter. Once he goes inside praise him, and let him know that he is doing the right thing.
Once your puppy starts going into the crate by itself, you should reward it. You can do this by giving him a dog treat or a new kind of puppy toy to mess around with. This is when you know that your puppy is getting used to the crate.
Now that the puppy is getting used to the crate, you can shut the door and monitor the puppies reaction. Some puppies may start to whine when the door to the crate is closed, this is normal you just have to make sure that you do not let the puppy out just because it is whining, wait until the puppy is calm.
There are many benefits to crate training your puppy. If you are having guests over or if you have to leave the house you can put the puppy in the crate, and if he is properly crate trained he will not mind at all and wait patiently until you let him out.
I am having problems potty training my new puppy, any tips?
Claire posted I am having problems potty training my new puppy, any tips? I am trying to train my puppy using a litter box with puppy training.
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It is very important to not let your puppy out of the crate while it is whining or being bad. This will just tell your puppy that all they have to do is whine and they will get let out.
Have some patience and follow the steps above and your puppy should learn to love the crate in no time at all.
Yea, leash training puppies can be really hard and believe it all not, you need all the help you can get to leash training your puppy and I know because I have been there too but all the same, thanks for your article, it was really worth my time reading it.
Crate training is not a system that I have ever used but a lot of people do swear by it. I just can’t imagine doing it for the first time though and not feeling bad.
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I think crate training needs to be done early, some dogs are harder to train then others, it is best to do it when they are still a puppy.
Crate training is the way to go. It’s safer for a young puppy than letting him have run of the house. Young pups like to chew on things and get swallow things that can be extremely harmful to them. Using a crate makes it easy to manage until he can be left out without getting into things.
Dog crates are a useful tool used properly. I just recued a crate abused dog. He is slowly coming around.