Dog Alone Training ... Help Needed!!

[TGM]

I look at crate training as a life skill, same as a horse thats happy to be stabled-when something happens you don't want the added stress of an animal thats not used to being kept in.

Exactly!

 

[Fellewell]

I would be very wary of putting a dog in a cage in this weather. Watch any dog in a house and they will be constantly changing position because they instinctively know the coolest place to lay. They are not able to do this if they are in a cage and may overheat, especially a youngster who is anxious anyway.

 

[MotherOfChickens]

I would be very wary of putting a dog in a cage in this weather. Watch any dog in a house and they will be constantly changing position because they instinctively know the coolest place to lay. They are not able to do this if they are in a cage and may overheat, especially a youngster who is anxious anyway.

well, if its hot where they are, its not hot everywhere!

 

[TGM]

I would be very wary of putting a dog in a cage in this weather. Watch any dog in a house and they will be constantly changing position because they instinctively know the coolest place to lay. They are not able to do this if they are in a cage and may overheat, especially a youngster who is anxious anyway.

I think you need to use a bit of commonsense in such circumstances. You certainly don't want to put a dog in an uncovered crate where it can get direct sunlight on it when the weather is like this. But if you have a covered crate in a cool place then not unreasonable to use it for short periods of time. Our crate is in a corner of the kitchen built under a worktop, and both dogs are opting to go in there of their own accord in this weather because it is cool and shady.