OT: Crate Training Puppy

[uconnphil2016]

We aren't done crate training young Phil here on the Yard, so how is he is attempting to do this on his own?

Got the slash twice in the past month...I think I'm regressing

 

[Rocktheworld]

Very common. Happened with the 8 week old puppy my girl and I got a year ago. Just gotta deal with it. It may help, if you haven’t tried yet, to have his crate next to or at least within line of sight of you. Even just dangling my arm off the bed next to the crate helped him a lot, so my scent was right there. Puppies are used to being and sleeping around their family members. Plus they definitely have no sense of object permanence; when you leave the room and they can’t see you, they think they are completely alone, and that will drive up anxiety. They aren’t much different from human babies in that regard

I’ve heard draping a blanket over the crate can help too

 

[CL82]

Got the slash twice in the past month...I think I'm regressing

Hmm perhaps Tom should have a Kong loaded with peanut butter to give you whenever you have an appropriate post.

 

[uconnphil2016]

Hmm perhaps Tom should have a Kong loaded with peanut butter to give you whenever you have an appropriate post.

I prefer cashew butter or a nice avocado toast, I'm a millennial. Maybe throw in a crowler @whaler11

 

[CL82]

I prefer cashew butter or a nice avocado toast, I'm a millennial. Maybe throw in a crowler @whaler11

You get the Kong and you'll like it!

 

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It puts the peanut butter in the kong or it gets the crate again

 

[huskymedic]

Hey @UCYamsMD - found a little something for @uconnphil2016 's Easter Basket...

 

[tduconn]

Very common. Happened with the 8 week old puppy my girl and I got a year ago. Just gotta deal with it. It may help, if you haven’t tried yet, to have his crate next to or at least within line of sight of you. Even just dangling my arm off the bed next to the crate helped him a lot, so my scent was right there. Puppies are used to being and sleeping around their family members. Plus they definitely have no sense of object permanence; when you leave the room and they can’t see you, they think they are completely alone, and that will drive up anxiety. They aren’t much different from human babies in that regard

I’ve heard draping a blanket over the crate can help too

I agree with most. They need to see another warm body because often when you pick up a pup they've been sharing an area with other pups, so they are use to scent, sight, and warm body to cuddle next to.

Let the pup cuddle next to you on the bed. He can see you, smell you, and feel you. He'll sleep for hours. And it will feel like there is a hot water bottle against your stomach and/or back.

Your girl friend can hunker down on the floor in a corner of your room. Hopefully she doesn't whine to much, and has already been trained.

 

[Rocktheworld]

I agree with most. They need to see another warm body because often when you pick up a pup they've been sharing an area with other pups, so they are use to scent, sight, and warm body to cuddle next to.

Let the pup cuddle next to you on the bed. He can see you, smell you, and feel you. He'll sleep for hours. And it will feel like there is a hot water bottle against your stomach and/or back.

Your girl friend can hunker down on the floor in a corner of your room. Hopefully she doesn't whine to much, and has already been trained.

Yeah I would lay down on the floor next to his crate for a bit until he fell asleep. Did that very often

 

[8893]

Hey @UCYamsMD - found a little something for @uconnphil2016 's Easter Basket...

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Is that @Deepster ?

 

[Redding Husky]

Now I'm getting ads for fancy dog crates. I'd get the one that looks like a jail cell.

 

[jackl]

It puts the peanut butter in the kong or it gets the crate again

Peanut butter in the Kong and freeze it, make Moe work for it.

 

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I thought this thread got locked?

 

[CTMike]

I thought this thread got locked?

Men’s board did I think

 

[whaler11]

I thought this thread got locked?

It did and then when ‘the man’ deleted a half dozen posts they unlocked it.

 

[uconnphil2016]

Men’s board did I think

only on the boneyard can a thread about crate training a puppy devolve into screaming at one another

 

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only on the boneyard can a thread about crate training a puppy devolve into screaming at one another

WHO IS SCREAMING?!??

 

[Jimdish255]

So is this training thing over yet?

 

[UCYamsMD]

the teeniest Kong that ever was

 

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the teeniest Kong that ever was

Oh my goodness

 

[CTMike]

UConn Phil in the doghouse is a nice touch

 

[UC313]

Nothin but teeth on this heathon of a puppy. So mouthy. Got her plenty of chew toys and nylabones but wont leave my 5 yesr old alone. Ive had to pin her twice on her back. Gonna be tough to break that herding instinct.

 

[uconnphil2016]

Nothin but teeth on this heathon of a puppy. So mouthy. Got her plenty of chew toys and nylabones but wont leave my 5 yesr old alone. Ive had to pin her twice on her back. Gonna be tough to break that herding instinct. View attachment 29290

Get used to it. You can have all the toys you want, they'll always prefer your fingers!