Unfortunately, this looks very familiar

Tyson actually is crate trained. The crate was just down at the fish store at the time. He was kind of the store mascot and greeted all of the customers. When we got busy, he got crated.

My two labs would go nudge the doors on their crates when they were tired and go to sleep willingly in their crates.

 

Yeah my older one still climbs in there during the day when we are home and sleeps, most likley to get away from the puppy!

 

If more would crate train the dogs they would also not have so much trouble with what the Dogs shrinks term separation anxiety .. And want to make the dog take some doggie downers like Paxil or Valium LOL I swear to god i know people who drug their dogs and children rather then training them . LOL But in the world of a dog a good day is laying around in the old den well fed and sunning its self , makes them feel secure and safe . All of mine would go to there's all the time my for sale dogs had their Runs ..I'd take them out to work then back in they went . That makes them happier to get out and train or work , It was like recess for dogs . Thinking now about getting back with the dogs and am looking around for some good bloodlines , Or if any of my older dogs lines are still being used . But a Crate will await what ever I do or or get

 

actually I have the only 2 dogs that had got in trouble while being in a crate. In reality it was my fault and I was VERY VERY lucky. I had just got 2 yorkie pups and they were a couple months old. I placed them in their crate (which was my old dogs crate..same place everything..never had anytype of problems before) and went to work.

The crate was in my bedroom. Came home from work and it was dark as it was in wintertime. Went to turn on light and it did not come on. Thought it was odd that pups where not crying to get out of cage. Now mind you it was a metal wired cage....I stick my hand on top of the cage and get a little tingle! I go and flip on another light and here are these 2 yorkie 3 pound pups snuggled together in their bed inside the cage just shaking up a storm. I pull them out and look....the female has wire pieces all in her beard! I flip the wall switch and look...they must have worked all day to pull a powerstrip that was by their cage into their cage and start to chew on wires! I never even thought about the wires as my pug was in that cage for years and never bothered them!

But they chewed on a TV wire, a cable box wire, a DVD player wire and completely chewed through a lamp wire. All those components were ruined! Thankfully the lamp was unplugged because they had chewed ALL THE WAY through that. I guess the only thing that saved them was their little bed! My male pups hair was spiked almost and he is now crosseyed and very stupid, which I blame that incident..but in reality he was always as dumb as a box of rocks!!!!

I also can not leave toliet paper on the holder. They will get a hold of a piece of it and run through out the house with it until it breaks or it runs out. They will then shred it!

Growing up we had a bassett that ate a couch! It was snowing and she was laying on it...we kept hearing this crunch crunch crunch. We would go in the living room and she would roll over and look at us! We assumed it was tire noises from outside. Well after she ate all the way down to the wood she got down and we saw her masterpiece...took her all day to do it and she did it right in front of our eyes! That is what was sad! But it was a very ugly couch...

 

I do a lot of the puppy talks at the vet clinic I work at and a lot of talks on crate training. If you treat the crate like a home they will too. The wolves keep their puppies in a den and the puppies feel safe. When they go outside of the den they know that the den is a safety for them. It is the same for our puppies. Crate training is a wonderful thing as long as they can't get themselves in trouble while in the crate, huh shackmel?

 

ummmm......lesson learned..I now have a dumb brain damaged male dog!