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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 407166" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Step, they have a lot more wisdom and insight than we give them credit for!</p><p> </p><p>About the crate training ... it can be a real adventure at times. Gotta tell you what happened when I first got my Ragan, 8-1/2 years ago. My first Boston, Ms. Rudy, was an elderly eleven years old when I brought Ragan home as an 8 week old puppy. We never used a crate with Rudy, never needed to. She had the run of the house and almost never got in to anything, even as a puppy. Ragan was an entirely different story! Ragan was the <em>puppyfromhades</em>, in to everything! For the first few weeks I would come home from work and it looked like a tornado had ripped through my house! Hard to believe such a tiny little puppy could unleash so much mayhem! So I bought her a little crate. The first few days, I'd put her in the crate (with food and water since she was so young), and then go to work. The front of our house was all open, the living room, then dining room, then kitchen. I put her crate on the far end of the living room and the first night when I came home, I found the crate on it's side, food and water spilled! The second night I came home and found the crate right side up but about six feet away from where I left it, food and water spilled on the floor! The third night I came home and found the crate on it's side, all the way in the kitchen, at the opposite end of the house from where I'd left her, with a trail of water and soggy dog food through all three rooms and Ragan looked exhausted! All she wanted to do was sleep! The next day was Saturday so I put Ragan in her crate and just sat and watched her. The little booger had discovered that if she flung her tiny little 10 week old body against the side of the crate, she could turn it over on its side (with her in it!). Took her several tries but she did it! Then if she did it again, the crate would then be upside down and a few feet away from where it started! Did it again and then the crate was on it's other side! So apparently she had spent that entire day very patiently inching her crate all the way from one end of the house to the other and wore herself out in the process! Never underestimate a determined dog, even if they're only ten weeks old!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 407166, member: 1883"] Step, they have a lot more wisdom and insight than we give them credit for! About the crate training ... it can be a real adventure at times. Gotta tell you what happened when I first got my Ragan, 8-1/2 years ago. My first Boston, Ms. Rudy, was an elderly eleven years old when I brought Ragan home as an 8 week old puppy. We never used a crate with Rudy, never needed to. She had the run of the house and almost never got in to anything, even as a puppy. Ragan was an entirely different story! Ragan was the [I]puppyfromhades[/I], in to everything! For the first few weeks I would come home from work and it looked like a tornado had ripped through my house! Hard to believe such a tiny little puppy could unleash so much mayhem! So I bought her a little crate. The first few days, I'd put her in the crate (with food and water since she was so young), and then go to work. The front of our house was all open, the living room, then dining room, then kitchen. I put her crate on the far end of the living room and the first night when I came home, I found the crate on it's side, food and water spilled! The second night I came home and found the crate right side up but about six feet away from where I left it, food and water spilled on the floor! The third night I came home and found the crate on it's side, all the way in the kitchen, at the opposite end of the house from where I'd left her, with a trail of water and soggy dog food through all three rooms and Ragan looked exhausted! All she wanted to do was sleep! The next day was Saturday so I put Ragan in her crate and just sat and watched her. The little booger had discovered that if she flung her tiny little 10 week old body against the side of the crate, she could turn it over on its side (with her in it!). Took her several tries but she did it! Then if she did it again, the crate would then be upside down and a few feet away from where it started! Did it again and then the crate was on it's other side! So apparently she had spent that entire day very patiently inching her crate all the way from one end of the house to the other and wore herself out in the process! Never underestimate a determined dog, even if they're only ten weeks old! [/QUOTE]
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