Your dog must learn to love his dog cages as his very own special place/den. If he becomes familiar with it, it is the most secure place for him. Whether you and your dog are in the car, at a motel, visiting your friend, or at your own home, it can be carried anywhere.
For successfully training your dog, you must keep few things in your mind. First of all, you must never close a crate door until and unless your dog gets comfortable and relaxed. You must never push your dog into the crate. Let your dog to walk in on its own and never use it as a punishment. Instead, you must make him fall in love with it. If you will not, you are going to create issues, as your dog will have a feeling of being confined and trapped. He will start seeing the crate as his enemy. You must spend lots of time patiently trying to establish a good link between your dog and his crate.
For the best training, the size of crate matters a lot. It should be large enough that an adult dog can easily stand, sit and stretch out. For a puppy, you must opt a smaller crate, or any block off at one end, so he cannot use one end for sleeping and the other as a toilet. It is a key principle for teaching him that he should not mess where he sleeps and eats. Dogs who are kept in crates that are bigger enough than their size are harder to house-train.
You must place the crate in an area where he is with you, and part of your family activities, even as a little observer. But, you must not put him in the basement. It is better to place the crate in the kitchen or your family room. Keep him moving. If it is possible, the crate should go in your bedroom at night. It does not merely provide comfort to the dog, but your own patterns of sleep is going to encourage him to slumber on and form instinct. If there is going to be any fussing, you will be there to deal with it.
It is necessary that everybody must educate themselves on the subject and give it a go. When a crate is used in a right way, the advantages are huge but not for the people who crate inhumanely, for extended periods, or for punishment and as imprisonment. However, we know, you are not that kind of person and will never use a crate as a tool for punishment!
But if even after using tricks given as strategy in this guide, your dog does not take to it, and shows anxiety, fear, or violently tries to chew his way out of a crate, (between, all of this is very rare!) don’t ever force them because this is when it is inhumane and cruel. If this happens with you, you just might be one of the very rare cases where using a crate does not suit you and your dog and this needs to be accepted.