- Location
- Alfreton, Derbyshire
Are you sitting comfy with a box of tissues?
Is anyone else having real trouble with crate training?
Or am I on my own with it? He’s ok as long as I don’t shut the door then he creates merry hell, no matter how many times I sit and do the treat through the door then shut it etc. As soon as I stop giving him food he starts. It can’t just be me surely? he’s nearly 9 weeks, I’ve been trying a week to be honest (now I feel a bit stupid actually) I’ve fed him in it, I’ve give him frozen kongs in it, I’ve sat in front of it with him chucking bits in for him to find. Im doing what the books say and he’ll go straight in it, takes himself to bed when he’s tired and sleeps in it through the day and at night.....as long as I don’t shut the door
The crate is in a playpen, so it’s not that important right now to be able to shut the crate door, but he does exactly the same when I shut the playpen door, even if I’m in the same room eating my dinner or mopping the floor, or just tidying up etc, if he’s asleep in his crate I can pop out for a smoke and he doesn’t even move or look up, if he hears the door shut that’s his cue to scream the house down, at night I turn the light off, pop him at the door of his crate, he goes in and lays down and goes to sleep, I silently shut the playpen door and creep out of the room and upstairs, don’t hear a peep till he needs the loo (or realises that I’m not there, not certain which) . But during the day it’s a nightmare
I’m worried, I go back to work next Monday, I really don’t want to leave him screaming the house down but I can’t leave him unsupervised in the room, that’s why I bought the playpen so he would have his crate and some extra space to play or wee if he needed to, and he wouldn’t be confined in the crate while I’m at work, the maximum time he’ll be in the crate is 4 hours at a time, I’m meeting a puppy visitor on Tuesday morning with plans to get her to come in at 10ish for half hour, then I’ll come home from work at 1-1:45 then I finish at 3:45, so the longest stretch will be between 6 & 10
I dont have any friends here where I live, feeling totally lost to be fair.
I think I’m overly anxious about getting him comfy in time to go back to work, it’s making me feel physically sick worrying about it
and to be honest I just dont know how to fix it
Is anyone else having real trouble with crate training?
Or am I on my own with it? He’s ok as long as I don’t shut the door then he creates merry hell, no matter how many times I sit and do the treat through the door then shut it etc. As soon as I stop giving him food he starts. It can’t just be me surely? he’s nearly 9 weeks, I’ve been trying a week to be honest (now I feel a bit stupid actually) I’ve fed him in it, I’ve give him frozen kongs in it, I’ve sat in front of it with him chucking bits in for him to find. Im doing what the books say and he’ll go straight in it, takes himself to bed when he’s tired and sleeps in it through the day and at night.....as long as I don’t shut the doorThe crate is in a playpen, so it’s not that important right now to be able to shut the crate door, but he does exactly the same when I shut the playpen door, even if I’m in the same room eating my dinner or mopping the floor, or just tidying up etc, if he’s asleep in his crate I can pop out for a smoke and he doesn’t even move or look up, if he hears the door shut that’s his cue to scream the house down, at night I turn the light off, pop him at the door of his crate, he goes in and lays down and goes to sleep, I silently shut the playpen door and creep out of the room and upstairs, don’t hear a peep till he needs the loo (or realises that I’m not there, not certain which) . But during the day it’s a nightmare
I’m worried, I go back to work next Monday, I really don’t want to leave him screaming the house down but I can’t leave him unsupervised in the room, that’s why I bought the playpen so he would have his crate and some extra space to play or wee if he needed to, and he wouldn’t be confined in the crate while I’m at work, the maximum time he’ll be in the crate is 4 hours at a time, I’m meeting a puppy visitor on Tuesday morning with plans to get her to come in at 10ish for half hour, then I’ll come home from work at 1-1:45 then I finish at 3:45, so the longest stretch will be between 6 & 10
I dont have any friends here where I live, feeling totally lost to be fair.
I think I’m overly anxious about getting him comfy in time to go back to work, it’s making me feel physically sick worrying about it
and to be honest I just dont know how to fix it
and in the meantime we’re all here to share the tears and cheers along the way! 
