Crate training tips and troubleshooting
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...
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,...
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...
Gus is an 8 month old yellow lab, came home at 9 weeks, was crate trained from day one and was honestly the dream case study. He went in willingly for naps by week three, slept through the night in...
Looking for advice from anyone who has been through a sudden crate regression. Our lab mix Otis was crate trained from 9 weeks old. He has slept in his crate every single night for 6 months without a...
We got our rescue Poppy in January. She's a 2-year-old shepherd mix and she came to us with what we were told was "mild separation anxiety." Mild was maybe not the right word. The crate was an...
Biscuit has been doing really well with his crate since we brought him home at 8 weeks. he'd whine the first couple nights, then settled into a routine, slept through the night by 12 weeks, no big...
When we adopted Biscuit (3-year-old golden mix) from the shelter six weeks ago he had zero concept of a crate being a safe space. First night he cried for four straight hours and I sat on the floor...
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...