We have always crated our 17 month old Boston Terrier and now Scooby is learning to love his crate too! A couple of months ago I decided to give Banditt a little freedom so I left him in the laundry room while I went to work. He was terrified without the security of his crate. :eek: He was petrified when we got home so now we always crate him if we are leaving! We leave the tv on cartoons so he isn't bored!!:D
Do You Crate Your Pooch When You're Not At Home?
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This past weekend we left Snoop out by himself in the house just to see what he would do. I was soo nervous but he was an 
and was sleeping on his bed when we got home!!! I was sooo excited to see that he hadn't done anything wrong!! I didn't know what to expect because he will get into stuff when I am there so I figured I am sure he will do the same when I am not and well he proved me wrong and my trust in him has grown soo much!!! I am soo excited now!!!
and was sleeping on his bed when we got home!!! I was sooo excited to see that he hadn't done anything wrong!! I didn't know what to expect because he will get into stuff when I am there so I figured I am sure he will do the same when I am not and well he proved me wrong and my trust in him has grown soo much!!! I am soo excited now!!!
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Boxer Pal
We don`t even have a crate 
And I will never get one, we don`t need it, and it`s really rare in here, that dogs are crated
And I will never get one, we don`t need it, and it`s really rare in here, that dogs are crated
NFBoxerMom
Super Boxer
Belle and Copper are getting to the age where they can be trusted loose in the house for small periods of time. They are almost 2 and almost 3 after all.
I'm still a bit nervous leaving them for longer than 30 minutes or so but their Daddy has a guilty conscience when they show him those pouty smooshfaces looking all sad and downtrodden in the crate, and has left them out for as long as 2 hours.
So far we've never had any problems. I think they actually sit in the window and wait for us to come home since they're there when we leave, and don't appear to have moved when we get back
So right now the only time they are crated is when both of us are working, maximum of 8 hours, usually only about 3-4 days a week, with "grand-dad" coming for a lunchtime visit to let them out, play with them, and give them their meal
I'm still a bit nervous leaving them for longer than 30 minutes or so but their Daddy has a guilty conscience when they show him those pouty smooshfaces looking all sad and downtrodden in the crate, and has left them out for as long as 2 hours.
So far we've never had any problems. I think they actually sit in the window and wait for us to come home since they're there when we leave, and don't appear to have moved when we get back
So right now the only time they are crated is when both of us are working, maximum of 8 hours, usually only about 3-4 days a week, with "grand-dad" coming for a lunchtime visit to let them out, play with them, and give them their meal
Barb_IA
Boxer Insane
I use to have a poodle years ago and I crated her. I always had trouble with her pottying in the house. I think it was a poodle trait myself. I've been in the home since Lacey and Loki. I've never had a problem with them destroying things or pottying in the house. I never crated them either. My daughter crates her pup though. Works out great for her and she says the pup likes it. He's quite the stinker I guess!
k9sareforme
Boxer Booster
Yup we HAVE to. one time she got out and scratched at our leather chair, chewed a belt sand, and chewed on air bed while we were gone in the process of bringging stuff over into our new house after we moved.
Boo
Completely Boxer Crazy
I crate both of my babies every time I go out. They both like to chew anything and everything - even the skirting boards! They have plenty of chew toys and generally are quite well behaved - but when they get bored......
We've just got Jasper a new crate (he was out growing his last one - they DO stop growing eventually, right?), and he planted himself inside it before I had a chance to put his bedding in there.
They like their crates and run to them when we tell them to. Piper takes all her treats into the crate to eat, and also her treasured stuffy toys, so her big brother doesn't take them off her. Jasper will lie down in his crate on his own if there is no room on the couch. Oh, and his crate is instinctively the first place he goes when he is scared (thunderstorms, firecrackers).
As Matt said, it's not very popular in Australia, but outside isn't an option for us either with our nasty neighbours.
Adele
We've just got Jasper a new crate (he was out growing his last one - they DO stop growing eventually, right?), and he planted himself inside it before I had a chance to put his bedding in there.
They like their crates and run to them when we tell them to. Piper takes all her treats into the crate to eat, and also her treasured stuffy toys, so her big brother doesn't take them off her. Jasper will lie down in his crate on his own if there is no room on the couch.
Oh, and his crate is instinctively the first place he goes when he is scared (thunderstorms, firecrackers).As Matt said, it's not very popular in Australia, but outside isn't an option for us either with our nasty neighbours.
Adele
catcompany
Banned
One day we decided that Draco was old enough and sensible enough to be out of the crate--the first 4 times he was the perfect angel, but the 5th day we came back to torn blinds and garbage strewn all over the place and specks of blood on the carpet and the door. Since then, for his safety and our peace of mind we always crated him ...he had seperation anxiety and hated the crate. Argos on the other hand goes into the crate without much fuss.....he knows that going to the crate means getting a treat. I don't think I will ever trust a Boxer out of the crate!!!!!!!
Our boxer got to the point where she absolutely refused to get into the crate. Even my husband couldn't get her in there. She was probably around 8 months. So then we tried the laundry room. Seems she ran out of things to destroy in there, though, and decided she would chew through the door and she made her escape that way. So, one day I decided that's it. Can't stand to know she is hating it so much...and let her have free run of the upstairs of our house. The first day she didn't harm anything. I have learned cannot leave anything out for her. I was thinking of buying a dog toy and not giving it to her and pretending it belongs to us just so she can chew on it thinking it's ours! All in all she does pretty well. And seems much happier although she has chewed on things from CD cases to candles (never the furniture -- good girl for that!).
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