you may know that typsy has successfully scaled her ex-pen a couple of times while i was gone, so since she hadn't had any accidents in the house and i don't want her to hurt herself jumping out, i left her in the living room for a few hours ... i was hoping we'd be in good shape ... but i'm not quite so lucky!!
she didn't go potty in the house, but she practically destroyed the rug right near the front door!!
obviously, i cannot allow her to continue that, so i felt that i needed to step up the crate training!! so i put it together with her bed, a couple treats, a toy and a himalayan chew ... i left the door open so she could go in there on her own....
she is not having any of it ... she ate the treats and took the himalayan chew and put it by her other bed ... she will not go all the way in it, even though i actually put her food bowl in there last night!! she put her body in enough to eat, but that's it. i put a couple more treats in there this morning, and she ate them and backed right out ... she will not go all the way in or lay down in there....
i understand you are not supposed to force them in there, you want them to go in on their own and gradually get them used to it, but it's not working!!!! what to do now?