What Are the Advantages of Crate Training?

When done correctly, crate training benefits both your dog and you.  It will create a much happier household for all family members when you dog learns and understands his boundaries.

Housebreaking Will Be Much Easier

Since dogs in general do not like to sleep in their own mess, housebreaking will become much easier.  Dogs generally develop better bladder control when confined to dog cages over a specific time.  He will learn when to relieve himself after taking him outside immediately after his release from his cage.

Dogs, being den animals,  generally like their place clean and quiet.  It is also good to remember that puppies need to go more often, so do not keep them in the crate for a long period.

Dog Crates Will Limit Destructive Behaviors

Since your dog naturally love chewing on things, your job is to train him on acceptable objects.  Your dog crate will assist you in this job.  By providing acceptable chew toys in his crate, you dog will begin to learn the right things to chew on and in the right place.

A Crate Will Protect Your Dog From Household Dangers

You can potentially put your dog in danger unnecessarily if left to roam unsupervised.  As you may know, a house may contain many potentially dangerous objects to chew on.  Your dog may not realize the danger chewing on electric wires or certain plants or foods.

Proper crate training of your dog provides more confidence that your dog will limit getting in trouble even when you are not around to supervise.

Dog Crates Make Traveling Safer

Containment in a dog crate helps eliminate some possible distractions if you have a very active dog.  A crate trained dog makes your trip more peaceful as your dog rest contently in his crate.

Crates provides a safe place for your dog when he is tired, not feeling well or just wants to be alone.

Do you ever notice dogs sleeping under tables or desks?  Naturally, dogs like small enclosed spaces in your home that may mimic a den.  Dog crates can serve as a great refuge and excellent dens your dog can hangout in.  Crates will also prepare your dog from some potentially stressful situations like going to the vet.

As you can see, crate training is beneficial for both your dog and you.  Start your crate training today, buy a dog cage, and reap the benefits.

Pit Bull Attacks half Wolf Puppy. Half Wolf Puppy defends against Pit Bull

Hello. You have seen the scenario where someone is walking in the park with their cute puppy on a leash. As you walk towards it you can see it’s joy in living each and every second as its tail starts wagging at high speed.

Seconds later, however as you are twenty or thirty meters away you and every one else hears a high pitch yapping and you turn already knowing with horror as you hear the deep throated roar that that little puppy that you just passed is in some serious trouble. Perhaps even its owner is not able to extricate it from the problem.

In many parts of North America that problem dog is actually a dog that has inherent anger problems perhaps due to an owner who wasn’t loving and caring or problems due to inbreeding and or its part of its gene makeup.

I heard an interesting tale as I was stroking the hair of my neighbor’s half wolf puppy.

A little less than a year prior, he had chained his big wolf puppy to the tail gate of his chevy pickup. He had then gone inside for lunch while the puppy played outside. He says he wasn’t inside more than about 15 minutes before a deep snarl and a shout caused him to run to the front door.

There, running free of its leash and cutting a line straight towards his big puppy was a vicious pit Bull. He remembers his dog backing up to the vehicle as if to get enough slack in its leash. In no time the pit bull had crossed 30 feet and without so much as a hello, launched itself in the air towards the puppy.

In less than a blink the PitBull was high in the air and reaching for his puppy’s jugular. However, his puppy was no longer there at all. Launching itself a split second earlier it was also in the air and much higher than the pitBull. The pitBull attempted to twist before it even hit the ground, but the wolf puppy was faster yet and by then had a grip on the throat of the pitBull.

The half puppy did a very adult thing. With astonishing strength it growled and thew the pitbull about 6 feet away.

What happened next is the stuff of legends. The furious pitbull twisted before it hit the ground. Some say that it never touched the ground before it was instantly airborne again. But the story was different this time. The wolf puppy didn’t wait this time. It timed the rush perfectly and met the pitBull almost at the end of its own leash. In a moment it was over. The big puppy snapped the neck of the pitBull and it was over.

Time that had rushed faster than anyone could probably recount, suddenly stood still. The only slow movement came from the puppy as it backed to the vehicle, slunk down and looked around.

Its not my position to judge as to what was right and wrong about this. We were told however that the pit bull had attacked a youth in the preceding year and that it and or its owner was under some kind of suspension while its case was being decided. Normally, it would have been put down or something, but witnesses didn’t all tell the same story so…

Nature does what nature does, and its sometimes sad when its your dog that has been put down, even though you know it may have been its fault but still…