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 should take the correct steps in the proper order to help your puppies realize what you want them to do (not use your floor as a bathroom!!!!). You shouldn’t assume that your pup will telepathically, just know what you want it to do when you put it outside.
If you teach yourself the proper training techniques, then your puppy probably will learn more in a smaller time frame than you think. And I DO NOT mean waiting until it pees or poops on your rug and then rub it’s nose in it. You should not scold a puppy for relieving itself inside unless you find it doing it at that moment. Dogs don’t bear the intellectual magnitude to catch on to something you are chastising them for that they did in the past, and you wind up flustering them. Not catching your puppy in the act, defeats the good of any discipline.
Selecting A Crate
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 not thinking like a canine! It’s alright, it is common that we assume it that way, but your puppies don’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 prefer the beige kennels (color does not matter, some people know which ones I’m talking about though) that have black or silver wire doors with locks on them. Keeping pet hair and dirt on the inside is another awesome feature of these types of crates. 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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