When Amy was a pup, we eased her out of the crate with a slightly larger "crate" -- anytime we weren't directly supervising her, she was in the kitchen with a baby gate across the doorway. When she was accident-free in the kitchen, which didn't take too long, we started letting her out into the rest of the house for longer periods of time.
The hardest part was teaching her not to climb over the baby gate, but a combination of the canful of pennies trick and just telling her "no" whenever she got too close to it worked eventually. Eleven years later, she still won't climb or jump over any kind of gate. (That said, I do know people who keep their dogs crated when they're at work, often with a dogwalker coming in at midday, and it seems to work fine. Remember, their wolf ancestors would be spending long periods of time in their cave, tending their pups; the dogs don't seem to find it onerous to stay crated.) Janet >I'm about to be the parent of a 5-month old doodle who will come to >me with his own crate. I understand he's "doing very well" with the >crate training but at what point can you leave them out of the >crate? How do I ease him out of it? Obviously, I don't want my >little guy living his life in a crate while I'm at work! Your advice >is much appreciated. > >--- In ><mailto:labradoodles%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected], >Jonathan Schechter ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Crate training is definitely the way to go...we found that by >being extra diligent during the day...taking our 9 week-old (when we >got him) doodle out about every 2 hours during the day and praising >him along with a treat, worked very well. He was fully housebroken >in 3 weeks...had one "accident" when we took him to our mountain >house that I believe was altitude related (notoriously known to >affect GI tracts of dogs and humans) and that was it. They are a >smart breed and will learn quickly. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Emily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <mailto:labradoodles%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected] >> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:57:08 AM >> Subject: [labradoodles] Hi everyone, I'm new >> >> >> My name is Emily and my husband is Tim. We are from Ohio and just >> added an adorable 14 week chocolate labradoodle to our growing >list of >> animals. (We also have a Maltese and a Terrier mix). We named him >> Dierks Bentley (for obvious reasons to all you country music fans) >and >> he is a DOLL. >> >> We are crate training him, housebreaking is going slow but not >tooo >> bad, definetly not as bad as with my Maltese! >> >> Hope to get to know everyone here and get some training advice. >> >> I will try to post a picture in the photos section! >> > > -- NOW AVAILABLE! "Play Piercing," by Deborah Addington (author of "A Hand in the Bush" and "Fantasy Made Flesh). Coming soon to your favorite leather store, erotic boutique or bookstore, or order today from http://www.greenerypress.com . Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/labradoodles/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
