Anne:
I would suspect the dog's ability to enter/exit without hitting the edge of the cage with the collar would be my first question.
I mean if he needs to thread it through the doorway, or, needs to negotiate the collar in/out might be an issue. I envision the dog wanting to leave the crate, the collar hitting the door frame, the dog getting scared/frustrated and things spirialing downward from there.
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Is there any reason why a dog should not be crated when he is wearing a lampshade collar? (assuming the dog is used to the collar and loves his crate)
If you get one of the new soft ones, he can lie down more easily and probably enter and exit more easily. In fact, I think they're terrific all around.
But if none of that is a problem, I've never heard of a reason for crate-conehead incompatibility. Anyone else?
I did buy a soft, clear cone and that seemed to help him be a little less freaked out by it.
We actually have 2 crates; the one he usually stays in is near the living room and is actually a travelling crate (it came with him when we adopted him). The other one is a wire crate that we keep in the basement for hot days. Last night--I didn't witness this--my husband told me he went into his crate upstairs and got freaked out trying to get out (just like what Red said) and my husband had to help him get out. I think hubby probably made it worse by freaking out himself (he scraped his knuckle--wah wah).
I just tried putting him in the downstairs crate--which is wider and a little bigger than the upstairs one--and he seems fine in there. So I'm going to put him in there. He really can't be trusted loose in the house while we're at work :-(
The hard part though is telling a border collie that he can't run or leave the yard for 10 days! He cut his leg on a sharp rock in our yard...spaz.
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