How do you fix bad crate training?
Kenyatta Labadie
2025-06-03 19:32:18
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To fix bad crate training, take training back to basics, and start crate training at a level that your puppy is comfortable with, then you won’t get any screaming. Introduce the crate gradually, crates aren’t something you can just shut puppies in and hope they’ll get on with it. They need time to get used to them. Build positive associations to the crate, feed their meals and use food toys inside the crate to help them learn that nice things go on in their crate. Play crate games, teach them in and out of the crate, gradually building up to the crate door being closed. Don’t close the door yet, closing the door too soon is a prime cause of crate anxiety. Take them out of the crate regularly, leaving your puppy in the crate too long can cause them to have accidents and leave them feeling stressed about being in the crate. Make sure they’re ready to be crated, your puppy needs appropriate levels of physical exercise so that they’re not full of beans when it’s time to crate them. If your puppy needs the toilet, they’re also not going to want to go in or stay in their crate very long. Keep an eye on them with a puppy cam, if you want to leave your puppy in their crate, do a few trial runs and leave a puppy cam on and see how they cope.
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