Do You Crate Your Pooch When You're Not At Home?

[Eric J]

Re: Do you crate your pooch when you're not at home

Originally posted by Hera's Mom
This was a real biggie for me. The first time we left our Hera she was very small with a real big cage. We did leave her in her cage because she was a mere 4 - 5 months old. However, after we saw that she was pretty much house broken, there was no way I'd leave her in a "CAGE".

. Please, please don't do the "CAGE". That's so unfair when these dogs can learn to not go in the house. Hera's Mom

Have you done any research on this or is this your personal opinion? Where are your facts? Here at Boxerworld we all agreed to the same set of rules one of wich:

"we support and promote wholeheartedly positive training and behavior management, that is, teaching the dog what to do by using positive methods, not teaching a dog what not to do by causing it discomfort and pain. Any threads which appear to promote 'negative' training and methods will be closed but genuine questions regarding training methods will be responded too if only to refer people to positive alternatives or applicable online information)"

Now with this in mind, crate training is fully supported and is even used by moderators on this site. Crate training is NOT unfair, and to ask someone please to not use a training tool for the dogs benefit is just shocking to me. I would like to see your links or references to where you got this misinformation.

I can understand your aversion to them, I was against them myself, until I did the research and realized how important they are. The book,"Culture Clash" covers crate training nicely and I reccomend you read it before putting it down. Dogs are den animals, the "CAGE" as you call it, is viewed as a den to them and a place of safety. That is why you see adult boxers who have been crate trained, goto their crate when they want to rest or avoid loud events in the house when they are in a peaceful mood (like kids playing).

I disagree with some things this site allows, one of wich is ear cropping, that is a personal opinion of mine, and I respect the rights of others to do it with their boxers. I dont post negative things, I just post to dispell the myths about not doing it. Along that vein, I would like to see your facts/references against crate training as I already asked, because in my opinion you made some serious comments on it.

Heck, if you check the poll, notice at the time of this post 106 members voted they use a crate at some time where only 44 members dont or did once and wont again. So not only have there been many factual arguements supporting it, it is widely practiced here.

Crate training is safe (boxers left unattended can't chew electrical cords or ingest household chemicals when in a crate) and if you do a search it is covered nicely. It is a fast humane ways of potty training, and for more information the "Culture Clash" is a good source as I already stated.

Awaiting a response.

 

[myrocky]

Eric I think that your response was a tad harsh and I am kindly going to ask you to tone down your responses. The post you are quoting is almost two months old and you will get no response from the author. In case you did not see, the author is a banned member

 

[Eric J]

I didn't see how old it was, the thread popped back up with a new post, and I read it and then posted. Sorry for reviving a dead issue.

I dont' see how it was to harsh, I have seen other threads that where allowed that where stronger worded. If you would PM me on what I did wrong I would appreciate it.

 

[olivesmom]

We almost always did until recently. Moe was always crated before Olive came to live with us because he would get angry that we left and be destructive. They were crated all the time until Olive was house trained. Then we had a rash of burglaries in our neighborhood and deceided to try leaving them out. Olive seems to be the company that Moe needs and they aren't destructive at all. We started with letting them out on short trips and then increasing the time that they would be alone. It seems to be working great so far. Knock on wood!

 

[Laura McNamara]

We always put our little man in his crate, it not he will have lots of fun eating my rug.!!!

 

[KC]

I didn't know about crate training until BW. I always thought it was cruel how people "caged" their dogs. Obviously, there are people who abuse crate training, and don't implement it correctly. But now, especially when I look at my torn up couches, etc, I think I see the point of crate training! But, since my girls are 2 and 5, they stay in un-crated now with no problem. I will crate train my next - if necessary (trying to talk hubby into rescuing older doggie) - but, I do like being able to leave mine uncrated. So, I think I'll crate train with the goal of being able to do away with the crate upon the dog's reaching maturity. But, my girls don't just get free run of the house, they are confined to three rooms - plenty of room to play, but in a carefully 'dog proofed' area of the house.

 

[Jaime&Louie]

I think that I got really lucky! I never crate Louie, in fact, I took the door off of his cubby, so if he chooses to go in there at night and sleep (which he does by choice), he can. But I feel so bad leaving all day long, that I started giving him free roam of my apartment at about 4 months old. He's NEVER chewed anything up. He'll drag my shoes and clothes out of my room, but then just leave them there. He's gotten into the garbage about 3 times, but nothing too bad. He ate wrappers from Wendy's, and then puked, and never did that again.
So, pretty much, he's a super good dog. I think the reason is that the apartment is HIS pad, not mine. He is pretty much the man of the house, and he knows it. I think he likes to keep it tidy, and knows what is HIS, and what belongs to ME.
I built him a toy box and I get him a new toy about once a week or so, and hide it in there for him. He is only interested in what's in his toy box.
So far so good... he's 9 months old now... we'll see if he keeps it up.

 

[Dincy57]

crates

Abby is 5 months old & gets crated at night & during the day while we are at work. I had a Boxer/Shepard mix for 12 yrs that had cancer. I wish i had used a crate with her cause she tore up everything. Even our Christmas tree one tear !! It was awful!!! Since we have used a crate with Abby we never have to wonder what we are coming home too.:D I learned my lesson the hard way!! So far Abby hasnt torn up anything, but if given the chance i know she would go for the toilet paper & tissues also!!! Cindy T





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