I just can't get the....
20 hours a day out of my head
Look, I know a lot of people like the 'crate training' - but to leave a small pup in a crate for more than 4-5 hours at a time is PLAIN CRUEL!!!!
You and Chris are going to do what you please, that's evident in all the past posts, but please don't try to justify 'crate training' being 10 to 20 hours a day, everyday for 'training purposes' (you say you put paper in there, so you obvious expect him to potty in there, so where's the training???). Please do some serious rethinking. To me that's punishment.
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