Who uses crates for other things?

A lot people crate their dogs for life but leave the gate open as this is their home and Society blanket.if you have fenced backyard l can assure you the dog would prefer to be outside in the sun.If you are working and away for 9 hours it is a little cruel to keep and adult dog confined like this unless it chews up everyeverythingg and is naughty.My house dogs have free reign over the whole house and watch the burglar they would take your arm off but then these ara adults

i have 2 wired haired pointing griffons, one that is 8 years and one that is 7 months,both female, i also have a 3 month old male pitbull. the girls were both crate trained for the first few months then we gradually let them have more run of the house when we were gone. we started out by leaving them in the bathroom (never together) then the basement and now the two have full run of the house when were gone. the pit on the other hand is still too young and is having problems with potty training so we leave him in a crate during the day for a few hours then let him out when were home. as soon as he is house broken hell go thru the same thing that the other two did then eventually hell have the freedom to run around the house as well. a few people have voiced their concerns to me about leaving a male pit alone with 2 female dogs but believe me hes probably the biggest baby ever and the dogs get along wonderfully so i have no worries about leaving them alone in the house when the time comes. its my personal opinion that leaving a dog in a crate all day is just inhumane. dogs need to be able to move around and the crate doesnt allow them that freedom. i was willing to train my dogs and ive yet to have a problem other than ripped up toilet paper every once in a while. some people just arent able to give their dogs the same attention but that doesnt mean that they care about their animals any less so those people just prefer to know that when their gone the dog and the house is safe.

If you live in a house with multiple dogs (like I do) and you leave the dogs home alone for any length of time, the crates are the best places for the dogs (like mine). I can't risk the chance that they might destroy the house or injure themselves while playing, or by merely being inquisitive about certain things. My dogs are safer, and my house is safer when the dogs are crated when there's no one around to supervise.

Here's other uses for crates ... Separating two or more dogs that don't get along ... Keeping a ***** in season apart from an intact male ... Transporting dogs in a car or truck.

I'm amazed at how many people get rid of crates after their dog is house broken, yet they often wish they still had the crate later on.

Crate training should not be used to coop a dog up for 8 or more hours a day. It is a temporary means to house train and transport a dog safely. After the dog is housebroken you can keep a crate set up but leave the door open or off.

A crate can be a safe place for a dog to go if there is too much commotion in the house. People and children should be told to leave a dog alone that is crated or in its crate by choice.

I have two dogs... One is a 12 year old who causes little to no mischief now in the house. but when he was about a year old, and i came home to the fact that he had chewed his way through the babygate that kept him out of the kitchen and he was running around a spinning, spewing pepsi bottle, well... i wish i had crated him. I trained him the oldfashioned way back then, and after about 7 accidents in the house he was housebroken. He still destroyed things occasionally and we had him in the vet for eating everything from batteries to several feet of yarn.

I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback who is two and is peacefully laying in his crate right now. The door is open, which i don't think has been locked in about a year. He uses it for his safe haven when he wants to rest. We started leaving him out for short times when he was about 9 months old. Running to the corner store... anything less than half an hour, and we would leave him with a chewy or a kong to keep him occupied. Sometimes we would have to clean up shredded papertowels and sometimes he would be peacefully sleeping in his open crate.

After we felt that he had mastered these short durations, we began to leave him out at night. This went well, so after a while we started trusting him with longer times out of the crate with no one home.

At about 14 months old, he was done with lockdown, but he has not given up his crate, and i like the convenience of him going in there and not being underfoot.

This also helps in that we travel with him, and he is crated when travelling. It keeps him calm and gives us the peace of mind to know that he is secure should something happen.

I don't think it is any more a cop-out than putting a babygate up to contain children or childproofing your house.

I am all for crate training...when done right.

I think alot of people just use it for the early training. But I know many that use it the dogs whole life. My boy sleeps in my room now that he is house trained and doesn't chew, but we will crate him if certain guests come over, or if he wants to rest without the kids bothering him. Some people think it's cruel, but dogs are den animals they actually like the safety of it as they get older. Used properly crates can be a great friend to you and your dog.

After initial potty training, when we use crates for our dogs: at an agility trial if I do not take an ex-pen, if we stay in a motel and need to leave our dogs in the room to go out to eat, on occasion after we bathe them if there is no sun outside to let them drip dry before we brush them out. For any weird medical situations where the dog should be confined...

I always crate my dogs when I leave my house. I don't allow the dogs to roam around unattended. I have two cats and it's for their safety, as well as to keep my furniture clean and my bed made. They haven't had an accident in years but they do still find trouble to get into.

They also sleep in their crates at night. They eat in their crates so they don't get into food aggression fights. They travel in their crates, they are crated at dog shows and herding trials.

we used a crate when our dogs were small to help potty train once we started to leave them out at night about 2 months later when they didn't go in there anymore we put the crate up

We keep my dogs crate in the bathroom and she sleeps, eats, naps in it, but when we leave we don't lock it. We just close the bathroom door. We only lock it to punish her for ten minutes. At night we also just close the door because she is litter box trained and we leave her box outside of the crate.