Puppy Crate Training – Part 2
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 must take the proper steps in the correct order to “help” your puppy understand what you want it to do (NOT PEE OR POOP ON YOUR CARPET!!!!). You can’t just take a puppy outside and expect it to magically know what you want it to do.
Your puppy probably has the ability to learn a whole lot more than you think, in less time than you think if you learn to train it properly. And I DO NOT mean waiting until it pees or poops on your rug and then rub it’s nose in it.
You cannot and I repeat cannot correct a puppy for going to the bathroom in the house unless you catch it in the act.
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Pups don’t have the mental capacity to realize what you are scolding them for that happened in the past, and you wind up confusing them. If you don’t catch them in the act a correction just doesn’t do any good.
Selecting A Crate
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The first thing you want to do in puppy crate training is select the proper size crate. The crate should be just big enough for the puppy to stand up and turn around in and not bigger.
You might think “but I want to give my puppy room to move around and play so it doesn’t feel so confined.” There you go with your human thinking again! It’s ok, it’s natural that we think that way, but your puppy doesn’t.
Remember how they don’t like to relieve themselves in their den??? Well if you give them too much room, than they will relieve themselves on one side and just sleep on the other.
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.
They also double as doing a good job of keeping dirt and pet hair inside the crate and not in your house.
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.
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