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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>We love crates for training
initially...</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>Actually, I feel that the puppy feels more
secure in a crate, especially </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>if there are a lot of people in the house.
When we first had Mozart, we crate trained him</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>and eventually, he made it into our room at
night, </FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>after he was house
broken.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>During the day, we left the door open with
his toys and a crate pad and a blankie, and he would go in to play with a toy,
and end up going to sleep, with the door open.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>Our most recent hounds are crate trained.
My husband built 3 crates out of wood, and we have them end to end in front of
the windows in our front office. We have metal doors, and two little windows on
each one. The door is a grill for an outdoor grill. We have the doors
hinged and have a slide latch. They are padded on the lids which can open to
vacuum, or clean. We have regular crate pans which slide in the bottom. The
doors are open, and they can go in and play and rest, or they can sleep on the
padded tops, which appears to be a wide window seat. The problem...they love to
look outside, and we have a friendly pack of squirrels that cross our front
porch to the porch feeder of the house next door...a little old lady lives there
and she loves to feed the squirrels. Our hounds love to watch for them, and you
would think the front was coming off the house. So, we glazed the lower windows,
so now they stand on their hind legs and look out of the top half of the
windows.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>We have sliding partitions between the
crates to isolate the hounds if they are chewing on one of their p-nut butter
filled bones or kongs, or big beef bones...they will definitely get routy with
one another over those.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>If they are just sleeping, we will take the
partitions out, because they do like to curl up together. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>When we trained them for night
time, they were so cute. (It appears they know when it is the last
time for them to go out, they know it is slightly dark,) We use to say,
"Go to bed", and they went straight for the crates, now you do not have to. They
get a small cookie and it is lights out...they just come in and go to the
crates.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>Love our babies...</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>Happy Drooling and Good Night...It is about
that time.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>Faye and Winn</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>Annie, Misty and
Pebbles</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>Mozart and BeauJangles
ATB</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>Live Life... Passionately<BR>Laugh... until
your tummy hurts<BR>Love...unconditionally</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>My passions do not replace my relationship
with God,</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>but are instead, a reflection of
it!</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML>