I sypathize..... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
Linebred Mink female here....he he... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
She broke out of her 400 crate 3 days ago...she's 5 months.
Have fun and good luck.....I love it.
Pat

Corgi Power:

Great post!! Reminds me of an english bulldog we had. Wouldn't drink from a bowl, only running water. He'd hang his front over the edge of the tub (at all hours) and make the most awful gurgling/moaning sound you ever heard. My new pup will be here in 2-3 weeks and this thread is making me nervous!


Walt

You think it is making you nervous Walt, my brat comes next Thursday and we are leaving on a LONG road trip sometime the week after. Now, if he keeps me up all night, that is one thing, but I don't know if my family will think it is cute...

Oh well, I can always sleep in the garage....

hello again all: i guess mt puppy must be brain damaged, or something. he is just over 8 wks old. i've had him a week. he loves his crate, and spends most of his time in it playing or naping. i never close him up in it except at night.he has come to know this place as his and gets very vocal, if he accidently closes the door, and can't get in it! maybe i just got lucky, or maybe he is too badly deranged mentally to know that he is supposed to cry and whine and raise hell!

No John, sounds like a good puppy. I am hoping mine will be the same. Unfortunately I have no way of knowing until I get him here...

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Originally posted by Shepherdgirl- Deanna:
I am hoping mine will be the same. Unfortunately I have no way of knowing until I get him here...

I hope yours is "Hell on Paws" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Yes. May your dog be CRAZY and EXTREME!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
Pat

Alex LOL

My pup is crated sometimes during the day for a couple of hours here and there, but only when I have to really concentrate on some business issues when in my office at home.

She gives me the signs when she wants out of the crate by thumping down loudly back and forth to other laying positions like she's really frustrated w/her bed plus produces the big sighs or loud outblowing of breaths and low grunts! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> but that only came after she figured it out that crying was not the way out. I laugh when I start hearing her do this as it is so obvious. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Ours will cry if we crate him while we're home and he doesn't want to be crated or isn't sleepy.
If he's sleepy or hears the phrase "time out crate!" he won't whine...first, because he's sleepy, second when he hears "time out crate" he knows he's screwed up big time. He only gets crate time outs for really naughty things where a "NO!" or "ENOUGH" is ignored.

He's only crated when it's unsafe for him to be out (as in, we're cleaning or the birds or rats are upstairs and loose), or when we're away.

When he cries in his crate and we know he doesn't need to go potty (and we take him out immediately before going in the crate to make sure of that; plus he's let out every 2-4 hours during the day), he gets scolded with a sharp "QUIET" or "NO", and if that doesn't work, he gets put down in the laundry room, in crate, with the laundry room door shut and the lights off.

Quiet tends to work pretty well though. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The first night we had him home, he cried himself to sleep, but after that he was pretty good.