Crate Training Your Dog or Puppy
Sara Bijnaam
Crate Training Your Dog or Puppy By Sara Bijnaam
Crate Training Your or Puppy
Crate training can be an efficient and effective way to house train a dog. Dogs do not like to soil their resting/sleeping quarters if given adequate opportunity to eliminate elsewhere. Temporarily confining your to a small area strongly inhibits the tendency to urinate and defecate.
1: Understand the difference between temporarily confining your to a crate and long term confinement when you are not home:
The major purpose of confinement when your are not home is to restrict mistakes to a small protected area. The purpose of crate training is quite the opposite. Short term confinement to a crate is intended to inhibit your from eliminating when confined, so that she will want to eliminate when released from confinement and taken to an appropriate area. Crate training also helps teach your to have bladder and bowel control. Instead of going whenever she feels like it, she learns to hold it and go at convenient scheduled times. Crate training should not be abused, otherwise the problem will get drastically worse. The crate is not intended as a place to lock up the and forget her for extended periods of time. If your soils her crate because you left her there too long, the house training process will be set back several weeks, if not months.
2: keep a diary of when your eliminates:
If you have her on a regular feeding schedule, she should soon adopt a corresponding elimination schedule. Once you know what time of day she usually needs to eliminate,
Appropriation I enjoyed Will engaging me in yesterday's entry regarding new media literacy. Since I'm rewriting Chapter Three of my manuscript, I'll extend those thoughts briefly ... literacy? Nice little post at Weblogg-ed about weblogs, wikis, and literacy. What I like about the post is the point regarding the openness of online writing. ... Tiger Stadium Detroit has spent about $2 million just to do nothing with Tiger Stadium. Tiger Stadium sits on a crumbling cobbled road across from Corktown, flanked ... What I'm Doing What I'm Doing Reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Ooooh. A novel I like. Reading Nedra Reynolds' Geographies of Writing. Hmmm. I'm interested ... fun with google This site reveals some of Google's untapped power. Here, he shows how Google can dig up passwords and authentication if you know the right words ... Basketball Jones Got to settle my basketball jones: Trying to understand the Orlando/Houston trade. I can somewhat get the McGrady/Francis swap, but when you throw in all ...
you can begin taking her out only at those times instead of every hour. After she has eliminated, she can have free, but supervised, run of your house. About one hour before she needs to eliminate (as calculated by your diary) put her in her crate. This will prevent her from going earlier than you had planned. With your consistency and abundance of rewards and praise for eliminating outside, she will become more reliable about holding it until you take her out. Then the amount of time you confine her before her scheduled outing can be reduced, then eliminated.
3: Mistakes and Accidents During Training:
If you ever find an accident in the house, just clean it up. Do not punish your dog. All this means is that you have given her unsupervised access to your house too soon. Until she can be trusted, don't give her unsupervised free run of your house. If mistakes and accidents occur, it is best to go back to the crate training. You need to more accurately predict when your needs to eliminate and she needs more time to develop bladder and bowel control.
Sara Bijnaam has discovered an incredible training system, with extensive information on various aspects of potty training, obedience training, eliminating bad behavior, diet & grooming, etc. She reveals the resource at http://trainpetdog.blogspot.com/
Here you can find more resources for training your dog, see http://trainpetdog.blogspot.com/ and thanks for reading Sara Bijnaam is an animal enthusiast. She writes about the care, health and training of dogs and cats, among other animal-related topics. Inspired by her pets, past and present, they have provided abundant learning opportunities and inspiration.
|