Trapper7
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Anyone got any crate training tips for me? My bf and I adopted a dog from the pound about 2 months ago. She has had quite a history so far and she's only 1. We have to take her everywhere with us because she freaks out when she's alone. That means when we go grocery shopping together, the doggy comes along and one of us has to stay in the car while the other shops... we take turns staying in the car
She obviously gets major anxiety when she thinks we're going to leave her...I don't blame her though with her past. We bought a nice crate for her, plenty of room and durable. When I leave her in there she SCREAMS at the top of her lungs. I set up my video cam and recorded it once while I was gone (I was gone 5 minutes) I didn't just throw her in there and leave, we've been training her slowly, using treats and making her see that the crate is a "happy" place but she doesn't seem to be getting better. We had to take the door off the crate cause everytime she went in she was terrified that I would close the door behind her. Now that the door is off she goes in by herself and lays down but only for 5 minutes at a time. She's just so scared that we will leave her and never come back...like her previous owners did
Just now I was gone for 5 minutes and I didn't put her in her crate (the door is still off) and I just closed her in our bedroom and I could hear her screaming outside and I was already 2 houses away
It's really sad. But sometimes my bf and I would like to go somewhere without her. I want to take this slow, but in 7 months I'm going back to Canada for 2 weeks and she has to behave herself while my bf is at work, so basically she has to be crate trained in 7 months. Any suggestions? I've worked a lot with dogs but she is just so scared
-Niki-
-Niki-