By: Finius Flanders

The Kennel crate is the ideal tool for house training a dog. Keep your dog in their kennel overnight with plenty of bedding and water and your dog will do his or her best not to soil their living quarters. However, you have to remember to get up early in the morning to let them outside. It is not right for you to sleep late into the morning without letting your dog outside to empty his or her bladder!

When it comes to crate training your dog, there is a lot of misinformation out there. For instance, I know you’ve heard that if your dog soils their crate; you should leave them in the crate for thirty minutes as well as with their excrement. Do not do that! It is completely wrong and it is bad advice. The idea behind this tactic is to let your dog suffer in the kennel crate with their waste and it would be so unpleasant they would not do their business in the crate again. However, the truth is that it will be miserable for your dog to have gone through that, but it will also be much worse for you! You’re the one that’s going to have to deal with the odor and the big clean up job afterwards. Remember, your dog is going to step in the urine and feces and before you know it, it’s all over the place and the dog. Therefore, you’ll have more than the crate to clean. If you don’t already know, cleaning feces out of a dog’s hair is a very unpleasant thing to do. This training technique is poorly thought out and it hardly works. It just causes you to do extra work that you’ll blame the dog for. Dogs are very clean animals contrary to popular belief. A dog would try its best not to soil their houses, dens, or their sleeping areas. If your dog has an accident, most likely it is not their fault. In most cases, you did not let them out in time to do their business. The best way to remedy this situation is to let your dog outside on regular intervals. Be consistent and don’t let him or her regress.

When your dog is a little older, you’ll be able to put them in their kennel crate for brief periods if you have to go somewhere. Your dog will not soil the crate while you’re gone, but you have to take them outside as soon as you get home.