“Your Puppy Learns Better By “Puppy Crate Training

The simplest part of house training puppies is crate training.

Do not just put your puppy in the crate and try to train it in an offhand manner, It is necessary that you are systematic and regular in doing everything when crate training your puppy.

Your puppy will accept the crate as its home if you put it in it the moment you bring it home. Once it feels that the crate is where it belongs, the rest will be easy. On the other hand, crate training an adult dog will be extremely difficult.

Rewarding dogs for obedience is an excellent way to train dogs. It is also a very effective way to use when you are house training or crate training puppies.

Use the following simple steps when you begin crate training your cute puppy:

1. The very first thing to do is to get a nice, comfortable crate that is not too large so that the puppy feels lost in it. You should buy the crate and have it ready before you get your puppy. When you bring the puppy to your home, place it near the crate and allow it to nose around it, exploring the crate and the new surroundings it now finds itself in.

2. The puppy may not get into the crate all by itself. But this is nothing to be concerned about. If this happens, what you need to do is to tempt the puppy to get in. You do this by putting its food near the gate of the crate. You can even give it an encouraging nudge towards the crate. You do this every day, gently pushing it closer and closer to the gate of the crate.

After sometime, the puppy will get used to eating close to the gate of the crate. It is now time for you to put the food inside the crate. The puppy will go in to eat it. When it curls up inside the crate, you can shut the gate.

3. The crate should be large enough so that the puppy can stretch and turn around in it. It should also be comfortable for the puppy to sleep in it. This does not mean that the crate should be so big that the puppy feels lost in it.

4. It will help if you take the puppy and put in the crate whenever you find that it is feeling sleepy.

Once the puppy comes to realize that the crate is where he sleeps, he will get into the crate by himself whenever he wants to take a nap or just curl up and rest.

5. When the puppy has accepted the crate as its home, you can teach him to get into it without trouble when you tell him ‘go to crate’ or ‘go to sleep’. Once you have got him to do this, you can think of leaving him alone at home for a while when you have to go out.

Do not forget that your puppy is still too young and it will not be inclined to stay in the crate for any great length of time.

With this in mind, you can train your puppy by keeping it in the crate for 20 minutes at a time. You may then increase this time in the crate little by little.