There is nothing easier in house training puppies than crate training.
You will find it quite easy to train the puppy if you are systematic in your crate training. It will not help if you just push your puppy in the crate and try all sorts of methods without any particular plan.
Crate training an adult dog is not at all easy. But with a puppy, you can quickly get it to adopt the crate as its home. All you need to do is to, put it in the crate the very first day you bring it home, and keep it there.
Rewarding dogs for obedience is an excellent way to train dogs. It is also a very effective way to use when you are house training or crate training puppies.
Use the following simple steps when you begin crate training your cute puppy:
1. The very first thing to do is to get a nice, comfortable crate that is not too large so that the puppy feels lost in it. You should buy the crate and have it ready before you get your puppy. When you bring the puppy to your home, place it near the crate and allow it to nose around it, exploring the crate and the new surroundings it now finds itself in.
2. The puppy may not get into the crate all by itself. But this is nothing to be concerned about. If this happens, what you need to do is to tempt the puppy to get in. You do this by putting its food near the gate of the crate. You can even give it an encouraging nudge towards the crate. You do this every day, gently pushing it closer and closer to the gate of the crate.
Once you have got the puppy to become used to eating close to the gate, put the food right inside the crate. After the puppy had gone in and made itself comfortable in the crate, close the gate
3. The crate should be large enough so that the puppy can stretch and turn around in it. It should also be comfortable for the puppy to sleep in it. This does not mean that the crate should be so big that the puppy feels lost in it.
4. It will help if you take the puppy and put in the crate whenever you find that it is feeling sleepy.
Once the puppy comes to realize that the crate is where he sleeps, he will get into the crate by himself whenever he wants to take a nap or just curl up and rest.
5. When the puppy has accepted the crate as its home, you can teach him to get into it without trouble when you tell him ‘go to crate’ or ‘go to sleep’. Once you have got him to do this, you can think of leaving him alone at home for a while when you have to go out.
You must keep in mind that your puppy is still too young and small and will not be able to keep still in the crate for a long time.
Now that you know this, you can get your puppy to stay in the crate without difficulty, if you keep it the crate for just short periods of time, say 20 minutes at a time. Then gradually increase this period of keeping it in the crate.




















