Puppy Crate Training And The Correct Crate
When starting the process of puppy crate training you have to remember that your puppy would love to do nothing more in the world than please it’s owner, “YOU”.You have to take the right strides in the suitable order to assist your pup in understanding what you prefer it to do (don’t use your rug for a toilet!!!!). You can’t just take a puppy outside and expect it to magically know what you want it to do.
The puppy most likely has the mental power to learn a greater amount than you think, much faster if you can learn a good training program. And I don’t mean waiting til it uses the bathroom on your carpet and then smoosh it’s face in it. You should not scold a puppy for relieving itself inside unless you find it doing it at that moment. A puppy doesn’t have the wits to comprehend what you are correcting it for some time ago, and you wind up baffling them. If you don’t catch them in the act a correction just doesn’t do any good.
Selecting A Crate
The first thing you want to do in puppy crate training is select the proper size crate. The kennel should be just large enough for your puppies to turn around and stand up in and no larger. One could ponder but I need to provide my puppies with more space to play and scurry around so they don’t feel so restricted. Off you go again, not thinking like a dog! It’s ok, it’s natural that we think that way, but your puppy doesn’t.
Bear in mind how they do not prefer to go to the bathroom in their den??? Well if you permit your puppies to have too large of an area, they might use one side for a toilet and the other for resting. Most of the commercially available puppy crates are sufficient for puppy crate training. I like the tan plastic crates (color doesn’t matter, most people recognize these though) with the wire front door with a lock on it. These types of crates do a super job of retaining the pet hair and dirt on the inside of the crate and not in your home. If you’d rather buy a larger size so that you don’t have to keep buying crates as your puppy grows, that’s ok, just get one with an adjustable divider so that you can expand it as your puppy grows.
