[yorkieusa]

Originally Posted by Fantastic49

this is great advice!!! i'm going to use it all!! (if i haven't already!!) now i feel more confident about getting this to work....

to answer a couple questions, yes, her crate is out and open all the time in case she ever wants to go in and she does actually go in there and lay down and fall asleep or relax, etc. my only difficulty with her is when i'm telling her to go in it ... she doesn't want anything to do with it and she's a little sneak about only putting her body halfway in to steal the treat, which i put in the very back of it....

i have put her in there when i'm home and closed the door a couple of times so she'll know i'm not always going to leave, but i think i need to do that more.... cuz right now, if she's in there and i move from where i am, she comes running out of it b/c she doesn't want to be closed in (though i've never even done that)....

also, it's weird, whenever i put food in there and leave her, when i come back, she will have taken her bed, shoved it behind her and over top of the (now empty) food dish and she's laying in the front of the crate on the plastic!! isn't that strange?!?

She may get anxious when you are gone and be digging and trying to get out. Put that video on her.