No one likes when somebody calls one’s kids messy. Our dogs are our kids. We all treat them as so always. For not letting anybody point finger towards them, Crate training is much needed. It teaches our dogs solid and functional obedience. Not just this, it one of the most valuable and beneficial skills our dogs can have. Prior to going any farther, let us get one thing very clearly in our minds, crate-training dogs is not mean, cruel, or inhumane in any way. Usually we as humans compare a crate to jail or we feel sorry for our dogs that they are in a crate – that is so wrong. We have to train our dogs through the dog’s mentality, not our own.
There are many advantages of crate training dogs. In this training, the crate’s door is expected to be closed and locked. In our opinion, here are the most important reasons to crate train dogs:
- Mental Preparation: At the groomer, the vet’s office, a friend’s home, or in a car, or somewhere else, it is going to happen. At some point in the life of our dog, he is going to be in a crate. Therefore, it is better to prepare him for such situations. It is very necessary. As per our opinion, not giving this training to your dog is like doing a disservice to him as it causes stress, anxiety, and is so hard on few dogs when they are finally needed to be put in such situation.
- Safety and security: Through a crate, when one is not able to supervise his dog for some time, one can safely confine one’s dog to keep them out of any harm. Slowly, dog starts to learn to view his crate as his special place, where no other human can venture and he can get to be alone when he desires. It is his own small place of security and privacy.
- House-training: One can take advantage of the innate instincts of a puppy and teach him how to keep his ‘den’ nice, neat and clean. After having his own home i.e. the crate, he will do his best not to create mess where he lives and sleeps. A crate is like a tool that can also be used to dramatically speed up the time required to train a dog to toilet outside, to improve their bladder & bowel control.
- Protecting one’s possessions: A crate is very valuable as it also teaches one’s puppy or dog to be fixated on his own chew toys and not one’s furniture and shoes. By securing them in a crate when one cannot supervise it, it prohibits the dog from chewing things he should not chew. It aids them in learning what he can and cannot chew.
- House-Boarding and kennels for training: If there ever comes a time when one has to board one’s dog or place him in quarantine, the ordeal will be much less traumatic for one’s pet. For that, it is necessary that he must be already accustomed to and comfortable being confined in a crate.