We got gidget when she was 5 months old and never crate trained her but then like you had said when we would come back from places the hose would be torn apart...we got a crate and put her in it when we leave now (at night she sleeps on the souch and it seems that if we are in the house she has no issues) Anyhow she wouldnt go in there so I sat by the crate and put her in there and shut the door still sitting there and then opened it and gave her a little treat then shut the door for a bit longer and moved a bit away kept doing this till I was in the other room and it was a few min in the crate.......I just did that one day and now she loves it....sometime I will wonder where she is and she is asleep in there all on her own.....she still barks and has a fit when we leave out someplace (she wants to go along for the ride) But when we come home she is doing her big drama stretch so i know she has been napping. |