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Choosing a Dog Crate
Dogs, like their wild cousins, wolves, are naturally den animals. If introduced correctly, wire or plastic dog crates provide a sense of security – a refuge where your dog can go whenever he needs to get away from the high activity level of your home, or just wants some peace and quiet.
Reasons to purchase a Dog Crate
House training: It is a dog’s natural inclination toward dens that makes a dog crate so useful to house train puppies. Since puppies will not normally soil an appropriately-sized ‘den,’ crates are extremely effective for helping puppies gain control over their bladders. They help reduce the number of accidents you will have to clean up, and cut in half the time it takes to teach puppies where they are supposed to relieve themselves. When it comes to house training a new puppy, there is nothing that makes the training go faster or easier than a puppy crate. Placed in a crate that is just the size they need to lay down and no more, house training is often completed in 10 to 14 days.
Protecting the puppy and your house: Dog Crates are useful during the puppy period as a way to protect your home from the mad dashes that knock over the plants and furniture, chewing teeth, and generally uncontrollable behavior. Dog Cages can keep puppies from forming bad habits when they are not under a watchful eye. As an adult, the crate will be just as useful. If puppies are introduced to a crate correctly, they will not resent them, and most will actually consider them their private hideaway spot.
Traveling: Traveling with pets, be they puppies or adults, is safer and easier when you use a crate to control them.
Plastic and wire dog crates are both very good products for dogs and cats. Today’s wire crates offer convenience and versatility features that usually make them a better choice for most pet owners.
Advantages of Wire Dog Crates
- Many wire crates are collapsible, Fold & Carry styles, making them easier to store and transport.
- Wire dog crates can be sized to your growing dog with removable divider panels that expand living space.
- Wire dog cages are easier to clean — particularly crates with the new, seamless-style polyethylene floor pans.
- Wire crates offer better ventilation.
- Wire crates provide more and better visibility for your pet.
Advantages of Plastic Dog Crates
There are, however, instances when plastic crates are a sensible choice. If you plan on traveling with your pet by plane, plastic crates are required by law. Also, some owners feel plastic crates provide a greater sense of security and privacy for their pets. This quiet den-like refuge is good for high activity level households, particularly those with young children. However, a blanket or cage cover placed over a metal crate can provide the same result.
Dog Crate size
Especially if you are using the dog crate to house train your puppy, do not make the common mistake of buying one that is too large for your puppy. If it is too spacious, your puppy will eliminate in a ‘remote’ corner. Buy a puppy crate you will only use for training, or buy one that you can use throughout your dog’s life and add divider panels when the dog is smaller to reduce the area to the appropriate size.
The right size crate is one in which your pet can lie down, turn around, and have three to four inches of extra head space when sitting or standing. While the right-sized crate may seem too confining or too small to you, it is not for your dog.
As mentioned above, divider panels can be used in wire crates to adjust their size. If you decide on a plastic crate, understand that you may need to purchase a bigger one later as your puppy grows, since it must be sized to the puppy to ensure successful training.
If you feel uneasy about crating your dog, we strongly encourage you to talk to your veterinarian, professional trainers, or other pet owners who have used crates. Anyone who knows dogs will know the value of crates.
About the Author
Larry Volwiler is CEO and co-founder of RadioFence.com a Leading Internet Retailer of Bark Collars, Shock Collars, Pet Doors and many other Pet Supplies.
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