It's the next morning and now i'm having fun reading all the posts from the night...
here's my response:
1) you may think warren eckstein is a "quack." I don't.
2) my questions are pointed to those who crate their yorkies that are NOT 12 week old puppies that have peanut-sized bladders, or currently engaged in air travel, or people who just have a crate with the door open so that the dog is free to come and go as he pleases.
I'm talking about yorkies that are older and house-broken that are in crates with the door closed. Now, some of the owners of the older yorkies are getting offended and saying that I'm telling them how to run their lives. let's get real, guys...i don't know you. I met you on yorkietalk. I'm not going to tell you how to run your lives.
But....no one is just admitting that they crate their dog because it makes THEM feel better. Period end. It's not for training, it's not for behavioural problems, it's not because your yorkie is a vicious biter with a broken leg. Why qualify it and say "My yorkie likes it"? Your yorkie didn't tell you that. He's trained to go in there. The bottom line is you like it, and you're afraid the little ankle-biter will bring down the ming vase.
As far as I can see, there is no conflict. There is a disagreement on methodologies used for training (or lack thereof). And what I'm asking is whether just as you trained your yorkie to sit in a crate for an X # of hours, couldn't you have just trained him not to chew on electrical cords?
I mean, does your dog chew on electrical cords because you crate him, or is he crated because he chews on electrical cords? Which came first...the crate or the electrical cord? |