Under the right circumstances, you can crate train your dog in a weekend.
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Then you've come to the right place. You can have a dog and a nice, clean house at the same time. You can have a well-behaved, happily crate trained dog or puppy without any stress for you or your furry friend. And you won't need to spend a lot of time getting there.
With crate training, you give your dog his own space - his own den - when you're away. Crate training works off of your dog's natural instincts, is easy to teach, and allows you freedom to go out without worrying about your dog or your house. And it works like gangbusters.
But you have to know how long your dog can stay in the crate. For very young puppies (10 weeks or less), that could be as little as half an hour. It depends on the puppy. And if you have a "puppy mill" puppy, who's been confined in a cage so long that they've lost the natural instinct to not go in their den, well, then the initial training times in the crate may be even less.
After working with dozens of dogs, puppies and their owners, I've written a book that deals with all those situations, and teaches you to make your dog or puppy happy and comfortable in their crate.
In Crate Training Made Easy, I'll show you:
- How to introduce your dog or puppy to the crate
- How long you can keep your dog or puppy in the crate
- How to handle whining in the crate
- How to stop elimination in the crate
- How crate training works with housebreaking
To give you some background, here's how I got introduced to crate training. I got a puppy about three years ago. I loved him at first sight (of course!), but like all puppies, he was very high energy, getting into one thing after another even after I had "puppy proofed" the house, and he was definitely not born housebroken. I don't even want to tell you what I thought about doing to him the first time I saw him chewing on my $200, best dress shoes. Fortunately, he and I got into a great puppy class early on, and we both learned a ton about how dogs and people can co-habitate. The biggest thing was crate training.
I was a little nervous about crate training. I didn't like the idea of putting my dog in a cage and leaving him like that for hours on end. However, giving him the run of the house was clearly not working, and even trying to contain him in the laundry room had failed - he was strong enough (and willful enough) to pull the baby gate down. The instructor at the puppy class kept her basset hound in his crate for the whole class, and he just hung out in there, chewing on his toy, curled up on his blanket, for the whole 2 hour class. There clearly wasn't any kind of suffering going on.
When the first crate training section of the class came around, all of us in the class were surprised how little effort (or no effort, in some cases) it took to get our dogs in the crate. We closed the door apprehensively, and stepped back. Everything was still OK. We were told to leave the room, go talk with other people, stop worrying about our little puppies. The puppies were eagerly working on their kongs (rubber containers stuffed with treats). They hardy knew we were gone.
I started crate training at home. I carefully followed my teacher's instructions, and me and my puppy quickly worked our way up to him being perfectly OK when I went out at night or during the day. That was just the beginning though - other changes happened as a result. There were no more chewed shoes. Potty training "accidents" dropped by 90%. Even when I was home, I could take a bath or a nap without constantly using my puppy radar to make sure everything was OK. Suddenly, everything just got so much EASIER.
I was telling a friend about this in the dog park and got a surprising response. "We tried crate training", she said, "It was a disaster. I felt awful. Our puppy cried and cried - nobody could hear themselves think. And every time we got home there was a mess in the crate. I ended up having to clean the crate AND the dog almost every day."
I was astonished. I knew I hadn't gotten some genius dog - our experiences in puppy class had shown my sweet puppy had only minimal aptitude for obedience. I pressed my friend about what, exactly, she had done. It became clear pretty quickly why our results were so different.
Your dog could be this happy in their crate. |
Some people worked it out just by dumb luck, and others who had done some things wrong just continued to deal with the less than optimal results, like whining and dogs occasionally going in their crates. Every so often I'd learn about a dog who had had a really bad time of it, and now completely refused to go anywhere near a crate. This made overnight stays at the vet really difficult.
I started looking online to see if there was a good book for crate training - it had made such a difference to me and my dog, and I wanted to help out a newcomer to the dog park who seemed like they really needed the info. I found a few books, but they were barely brochures. Nothing like the step by step instruction I'd received. I looked online for some ebooks, and while a few did cover crate training, it was pretty sketchy, and again, there were no real specifics on exactly what to do.
I went back to my puppy class instructor, and asked if I could interview her. She said yes, and I got a great one hour conversation down about everything anyone needs to know about crate training, and exactly what steps to take to do it. She showed how to actually condense the steps and - if all goes well - crate train a dog in one weekend. Once you understand the principles behind it, crate training is really very simple, and almost all the problems I was hearing about from other dog owners are quite easy to solve.
We also did a little video that came out pretty well. Finally, because I'm a writer and have a background in publishing, I made up a 20 page report going over all the points again, and showing how to handle special situations and problems along the way. Its not a book - you can read it and get started in less than an hour.
In a few hours you'll be well along you're way to never having another accident on the rug, never having something around the house be destroyed, and never having to worry about your dog somehow hurting themselves while you're out. And your dog will have a nice safe den where they can go when they need a time out, too. It gives them a bit more security, which makes for a better-behaved dog.
Here's what you get:
- The 20 page quick-start report
- The mp3 and transcript of the one hour talk
- The quick start video
- A master step by step plan for crate training in a weekend
- A recommended list of "gear" for crate training
- Sample schedules of when to have your dog in the crate for puppies and adult dogs, for housebreaking and for housebroken dogs.
for $7!
My guarantee is simple: if the book isn't helpful, just let me know and I'll refund your money. It's a downloadable book, so there's nothing to return. Just send me an email that you didn't like the book to get your money back.
Start crate training your dog tonight. The book is a downloadable from this site, so you don't have to wait for snail mail to get started. Ordering and downloading and reading the book takes an hour or less. Or you can just listen to the mp3 of the interview on your way to work, and get started when you get home.
The $7 price is only for this week, so you should take action sooner rather than later. I've gotten too much feedback that this is under-priced.
Just click the button below to get started. Your dog will thank you.
Don't spend another day letting your dog add to the stains already in the rug. Even though it may not seem like it sometimes, your dog just wants to please you. They just don't know how. Give both of you a chance to know where the phrase "man's best friend" comes from. When times are tough, its good to have every friend you can get, and dogs are the most loyal friends going.
Remember, you can "return" the book at any time in the next year (just send me an email and I'll refund your money that day), and you can get started in the next hour.
So what are you waiting for?
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Feedback from a customer: Dear Pam, ... I owe you, by now, a report on the progress we have made with Chess, who is now ten weeks old. The crate arrived on Monday of LAST week, and we put it up that evening. We followed your instructions and left it open for her to explore. Robin and I even put our head and shoulders inside it so that we could enthuse about "this lovely crate" to her and she pushed past Robin's shoulder to get inside herself. The next couple of days her toys were in there and when her bed went into it, she took to going into the bed very quickly. By Thursday, I was closing the door for five minutes and by Sunday I could say she is crate trained! Today she spent two hours in there and refused to come out when I opened the door. I tried fastening the door again then and she very happily stayed where she was!! Well done, Pam. Oh, how I wish you lived next door to us. Our dog would be the most well-trained dog ever. ...As you mention in your excellent course, she IS a chronic whiner but doesn't whine much in the crate. from Doreen H, Fremantle, Western Australia |
BONUS: An hour-long mp3 of an interview about socializing puppies with nationally recognized dog trainer Teoti Anderson. This information is critical to new puppy owners (and will be very helpful to owners of older dogs, too). You only have a short window of time to get socialization in, and if you miss it, your dog may never be as well adjusted as they could have been. Even very young puppies who are still susceptible to Parvo can get in a lot of socialization time if its done right. Learn how from this call.
