Crates

Well, I've always used crates for the girls. We dont get mess, chewed up stuff and Joe bugging them all the time.

Now we have Stan too, we dont have the room for three crates so the girls dont have one now, though sometimes we put Maggie in with Stan for awhile. Mimi and Maggie have both been sleeping loose downstairs at night for a couple of weeks and they have been excellent.

I'm very proud they are turning into lovely, well behaved dogs that I felt like a brag :2431: :2431: :2431:

(Wait for the stories about Stan though, I'm convinced hes going to be the biggest pain in the arse I ever met :2445: :2445: )

That's coz you brought them up so well

Am sure Stan will turn out great hun :love:

Aww glad they are behaving well,youve obviously done a good job
with them.

If I send Marley down for a couple of weeks can you sort him out too!!!! He's gone back to his old trick of chewing wires, hasnt done it for months and will try his damnest even though he knows he's gonna get told off!!!! :redangry:

I wouldnt trust him as far as I could throw him at the moment so he gets crated at night!!

Cheers ladies!!!

I'd love to have Marley :love: you might not get him back though :nhy: and I reckon Shelley would stalk me and mug me

I'm sure now I've bragged, they will destroy everything tonight :2445:

Crates are a fantastic invention!
Well done with all your hard work... certainly has paid off

Well done paula for getting them out of a cage. Hope all goes well. Never used acrate cause its better to solve what the dog is doing wrong or i have heard of people keeping adult dogs in crates which is cruel. :love:

Marley only gets crated through the night so I know he's safe and not up to mischief!! I would love it if he would sleep with us in the bedroom but he wont entertain it, we have tried often but he cries to be downstairs. He often wanders off during the day and he'll be sound asleep in his crate. Mind you he has a double duvet in there and 3 blankets and its an extra large one so he has plenty of room!!

Thats why I use them Jude. It stops them doing things they shouldnt when no one is there. It also stops any fights etc breaking out too plus gives them somewhere to go out of Joes way when they have had enough of him. He knows to leave them if they go in their crates.

I actually feel a bit guilty taking them down, they love them but I really want the space lol

I agree that its cruel to use them the way some do Rosemary, they get used instead of dealing with the dog far too much and that is wrong, but as a training aid and a retreat, I agree fully with using crates

Cheers everyone, I'm very proud of them :love:

you deserve to be proud hun

Paula wrote:

Cheers ladies!!!



I'd love to have Marley :love: you might not get him back though :nhy: and I reckon Shelley would stalk me and mug me

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DAMN RIGHT I WOULD :2431:

you have every right to brag about mimi and maggie, they are brilliant dogs, i was only saying to bev the other day that i was quite jealous when you had them on the splitter lead,when we met up for a group walk, they walked excellently, fred and betty were pulling like trains lol!! youve done a great job with them hun .. :san50:

crates are brilliant things, wll though ive never needed one for fred, we simply didnt have the room for a large on, hes kept in the kitchen behind a stair gate when we are out... its like an extra large crate lol...

well done mimi and maggie for being good girls.... :kss: fingers crossed mummy hasnt jinxed it lol

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Thank you :love: :love:

I can understand that crates are a safety thing sometimes, but its a shame the breeders of some dogs dont know what there doing when they raise a litter of pups. When i have a litter they are well ajusted and when they have gone to new homes they are queit sensible and are not crated. :love:

well we got Marley at 6 weeks and he is just a bundle of mischief!! Sometimes I think he does it to see my face go purple!! :2445:

AAAAWWW Jude i think marley is a sweetie, he was made to keep you on your toes. I think there are some clever characters on here. :love:

youre right rosemary.... theyre never naughty just very clever lol .. :2431:

tbh im glad we never had the room for a crate for fred...hes done quite nicely without one...*touches wood*...

Like Jude said she got Marley at 6 weeks. If they are with the mother for a couple more weeks they learn so much more behaveier from their mum. Its a wonderful thing to watch, spent many hours watching mum teaching them manners and at 10 weeks when i have kept a pup you see the mother teaching them to play. :love:

awww it must be lovely to watch Rosemary :love: Marley is a good boy most of the time but when he goes into mischief mode and I can tell by his eyes and the look on his face exactly when he is going to start and then he goes to all the places he knows he is going to get told off for and I swear to god he stands and laughs at me!!

But one thing for sure he certainly keeps me on my toes :2445:

i might send fred back to his mum then, see if she can teach him some manners lol

Judes wrote:

awww it must be lovely to watch Rosemary :love: Marley is a good boy most of the time but when he goes into mischief mode and I can tell by his eyes and the look on his face exactly when he is going to start and then he goes to all the places he knows he is going to get told off for and I swear to god he stands and laughs at me!!

But one thing for sure he certainly keeps me on my toes :2445:

Sounds like he has you well trained Jude :2445: :2445:

Paula wrote:

Judes wrote:

awww it must be lovely to watch Rosemary :love: Marley is a good boy most of the time but when he goes into mischief mode and I can tell by his eyes and the look on his face exactly when he is going to start and then he goes to all the places he knows he is going to get told off for and I swear to god he stands and laughs at me!!

But one thing for sure he certainly keeps me on my toes :2445:

Sounds like he has you well trained Jude :2445: :2445:

Unfortunately Yes!!!

theres never a dull moment with Marley but I dont think I would have him any other way!! :san42:

:san42: :san42: I suppose the crates are handy if you want to get away and hide from the dogs.

manto wrote:

:san42: :san42: I suppose the crates are handy if you want to get away and hide from the dogs.

Why do you think I got an extra large one!!! :san42: :san42:

awww well done paula brag away hun you have done a amazing job hun :love:

i have a HUGE crate in the dog room my lot LOVE em i use them wen they are pups and im hoovering and stuff but its always left open and we usually find at least two dogs curled up in there :2445: they love the crates and their kennels but they are only there for the dogs comfy beds lol

but i agree rosemary i wouldnt actually get a pup from a breeder who crates pups ect pup was running round a horse yard with stable lasses ect what a laugh lol