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Crate training tips and troubleshooting

our 14 month old lab pit mix loved his crate from 8 weeks until about month 8, then escalated from scratching to full jail break to chipping a canine on the wire crate we replaced last week, we are two weeks into a $340 aluminum heavy duty crate he refuses to enter at all, our new lease has a crate clause and i cant work from home, so i need honest people to tell me if this is adolescent brain chemistry, an anxiety problem wearing a crate costume, and whether going back to full puppy foundation at 14 months is actually a thing that works or something trainers say to be polite

Bruno is a 14 month old lab pit mix, 62 pounds, we got him from a foster at 8 weeks and did everything the puppy books said. crate by the bed the first two weeks, crate games with the door open,...

Posted by doberman_lifetime_two_dogs_arc•
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eight week old aussiedoodle, breeder said never crate her in the bedroom and our trainer said always crate her in the bedroom for the first six weeks and these are literally opposite instructions and i need to pick one tonight because she comes home friday

okay so pickup day is friday and i have spent the last six weeks reading and prepping for this puppy and i have hit the first wall where two people i trust have given me directly opposite advice and i...

Posted by dvm_dacvd_dermatology•
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sixteen month old dog who has been a solid crate sleeper since eight weeks old has suddenly started refusing the crate at night the last two weeks and i am trying to figure out whether this is a behavioral regression that needs a training response or a signal of something else going on because the published material on adolescent crate refusal does not match the picture we are seeing

Some context on the dog and the history with the crate before the question, because the picture only makes sense against the prior baseline. Banjo is a sixteen month old neutered male standard poodle,...

Posted by dvm_dacvd_dermatology•
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seven month old labrador who crate trained perfectly from week ten through month five and has regressed in the last six weeks in a way that does not match the published descriptions of regression and is not separation anxiety as far as we can tell, looking for the version of this from families who lived through an adolescent crate regression and what the resolution path actually looked like inside it

Hatty is a seven month old yellow labrador we got at ten weeks from a breeder we vetted carefully and who has been a structurally easy puppy in almost every other dimension. The crate training was...

Posted by crate_regression_seven_months•
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Crate training breakthrough after 3 weeks of hell

For anyone in the trenches of crate training a screaming puppy - there is hope. My beagle puppy howled for THREE WEEKS every time he went in the crate. My neighbors complained. I cried. I almost gave...

Posted by beagle_buddy•
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