Crate Training What is crate training and is it recommended?? |
I highly recommend crate training, as do many other here. You can purchase a crate at any pet supply place or Walmart, or other stores like that. You keep them in it, and let them out to go potty. After potty, you let them play some. Then put them back in. They learn to "hold it" while in the crate, cause they don't normally like to potty where they also sleep. I wouldn't crate them for more than 3-4 hours at a time. The crate only needs to be big enough for them to stand up, and turn around in. Any bigger and they will pee and poop in on end and sleep in the other end. Some of the bigger crates have dividers with them. Some folks have even put boxes in it to make it smaller. Whatever works. The idea, is most of the time (after that first few days) they don't pee and poop in their crates, which is a bed for them. Seems a lot easier than trying to run around behind them, and catch them doing it, and cleaning it up. Lots of people also use an x-pen. Its about 3x5 feet. They put the crate and toys, food and water in one part, and a pee pee pad at the other end. Thats how Venus learned to "go" on her pee pads. I tried the pen, but Venus climbed out of it, using her crate as a "ladder". Its easier to train them in "smaller areas". Yorkies have little bladders cause they're small dogs. Seems I just read that for every month, you can say they'll hold it 1 hour. I don't know if this is true or not. So with Venus being 5 months, she should be able to hold it 5 hours, using that method. Crate training sure works better than the older methods! I sure never got this far with my older yorkie, that I didn't crate. |
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Loki is outside trained and crate training was our friend :) Loki loves his crate and will go there on command. He even will run there when I pick up my keys and put my shoes on. It also helps because he behaves well in his car seat in the car because it is like being in a crate. It is also wonderful for time outs when he needs to chill for a while. It was a lifesaver when he was a baby and I needed to do normal things like cook or take a shower and I couldn't keep a close eye on him. If I didn't crate him I'd come downstairs to a puddle, but the crate helped us keep our sanity. Loki was "crate trained" meaning no accidents in the crate FAR before he stopped having accidents in the house. Every time he had an accident we took a step back with the training. He is perfect now :) Do yourself a favor - if you have an upstairs and downstairs buy two crates. We had one in the bedroom and one in the kitchen. Tiny crates. Now he has one big crate in the living room! |
how did you train him to go on command to the crate? are the crates like those carry things u buy at walmart? |
I like wire crates. Loki HATED the plastic ones because he couldn't see out. I didn't like fumbling with the silly doors either so we used the wire crates. I think we started with an 18" one with a divider and now we have a much bigger one. |
sorry to jump in but I was hoping that at some time I could abandon the crate but you are still using it at 2 yrs. The wire crate just doesn't match my decor@ lol My question is, Even after they are completely crate trained, we still cannot just leave them loose in the house? I was really hoping that at some point, we could just let her run loose with a potty pad or she would hold it to go outside. thanks, Quote:
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if we leave them in the house i would think they'd get into trouble...like kids do and i with them being so fragile...i couldnt imagine it with a little Yorkie. I may be wrong..since I am definitely new at this...my baby isnt even home yet...lol |
That's a possibility. Little Bit would eat rocks if she got them.:) |
Absolutely Crate training is a MUST for any small breed dog in my opinion and is useful in many other situations for larger breeds too! |
about the exercise pens - I just got one that's about 3x2, is that too small?? i didn't buy a bed b/c the pple at the store said b/c my puppy is so small i need a heat block thing, so I got that and just a small blanket to put on top. Then the potty pad is set-up on the other end. I was worried it might be a little cramped for my little guy. Should the potty pad be located outside of the pen/crate? |
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Jessica |
A crate trained dog is welcomed everywhere!!!! I can't say that enough..... I have crated my girls whenever I leave the house since they first came home... All it takes is one electrical cord!!! Or one roll or fall of the sofa... You just never know what they could get into when your gone!! They could eat a piece of bark in your planter and choke! I know it sounds extreme.. but why take the chance??? (the electrical cord thing does happen all the time!) And if your baby is crate trained... You can take them to friends and relatives houses! They will be much more welcomed than some dog who is constantly underfoot and doing God knows what in their home!!! And they travel better! Plus... almost a month later... I have not had a single accident!!! I have had to go back to basics with house training!! My girls are a year old... And crate training has been such a blessing!! And the fact that they were already crate trained made the whole process sooooooo easy!!! I am over joyed with the results!!! They sit nicely in their crates and wait for their free times like good little girls... no whining and no barking... Now these are two girls who are who are welcome everywhere!!! They are perfectly behaved in their crates!!! It did not happen overnight! But they are only a year... Thats not forever in the grand scheme of things!!! And its soooooo worth it!!! Crate train them!!!! You'll never look back.. and you'll wonder how people do it without them!?!?!?! |
I have a 10 week old yorkie and I really want to rate train her but unsure of how. She used to walk into her crate but once I shut the door she cries. I have left her in there for up to 20 min but no longer because I'm not sure how long is heathy for her to cry. Please help! |
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So do you keep ur pup in her crate most of her time during the day or just when you can't watch her? I have read some books that say crate them except when they need to pee/poo and except for a little play time and another says to hook them to you all day unless you have to leave the house and can't watch them? |
I don't see why anyone wants a dog, especially a small yorkie only to keep them in a crate and let them out to potty or play a while. Our first little yorkie we kept in a bathroom with a baby gate. Put a Wee Wee Pad and water in with her. She was kept in there only when we had to go somewhere. We blocked off the formal living room an dining room and then let her run the house. We taught her not to chew on things and after a year she was fine. She was trained to go outside and she slept on our bed at night. My new Yorkie BJ is being trained the same way except we can't let her out it is freezing here and she only weighs 1.5 lbs at 8 weeks. Now 10 weeks and go back to vet next week. If you don't want the dog for pleasure get a cat. |
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