[Dailydrool] anxiety poop and pee

[Dale Rutz]

Oh lord.  I'm gonna get flamed but here goes.

Let me try to start off by saying that I mean no offense to those folks that 
crate.  My mother (may her memory be for blessing) ALWAYS crated her dogs and 
thought I was a lunatic for not doing so.

I do NOT crate.  I simply don't.  Snoopy actually loves a good crate, he'll curl 
up in there happy as a clam, but I don't want one in my living room.  Gracie and 
LuLu will cry hysterically if you put them in one, rescued puppy mill breeders 
who have spent FAR TOO MUCH TIME in a cage.  I just don't do it.

So, mine don't pee or poop in the house (other than Gracie's occasional, an ever 
rarer, accident).  I watch them.  If I have to leave them then someone else 
watches them.  If someone (SNOOPY!!!!!, it's always SNOOPY) gets out of hand 
they get a timeout in the office.  Heck, half the time I even give him a peanut 
butter kong to keep him busy in there.

So, what if you ban the crate and try confining her in your home office or even 
your bathroom or kitchen or mudroom with a baby gate when you can't watch the 
puppy?  Does she do better?

Just a thought from the ever clueless momPerson
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