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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Fred's Dog Crate
On my previous post I mentioned that Fred (our German Shepherd) would take Orange Bear up to Fred's dog crate at night. Fred is a crate trained dog and he sleeps in his dog crate at night. The crate door is left open so that Fred can go in and out when he wants.
When we first got Fred from the animal shelter, we had two cats. Fred had been at the shelter for six months and the shelter people warned us that Fred was not socialized with other animals. Whether Fred was that way when he was picked up as a stray or whether he became that way at the shelter we don't know. When Fred would see another small animal he would get excited and that excitement would turn into aggression. Anyway, we needed to be careful that are two cats did not become targets of Fred's aggression.
During the day, we put up a pet barrier at the top or bottom of the stairs. The cats would have upstairs and Fred would have downstairs. At nighttime or sometimes during the day when my wife, Marsha, had clients at the house, Fred would be put into the master bedroom. Fred would then be right inside the bedroom door and the cats would be right outside the bedroom door. The cats seemed to find pleasure in tormenting Fred through the bedroom door. At night this caused Marsha and I to lose sleep and during the day this disrupted Marsha's sessions with her clients. The solution was to put a dog crate in the master bedroom and to put Fred into the dog crate.
The dog crate was far enough away from the door that the cats lost interest in trying to torment Fred. We used a Midwest Metals Life Stages® Single Door dog crate for Fred. We put a dog bed in the crate and gave Fred some toys (his favorites) when Fred was in the dog crate. Fred did not really play with the toys, but it seems like Fred was aware his favorite toys existed and Fred felt better if the toys were where Fred could get them. Fred was usually content in his dog crate. Fred never cried but occasionally he would bark and/or growl at the cats if he heard them. (Fred has a wire dog crate and it took my wife and I awhile to realize Fred felt more secure if we threw a blanket over the dog crate, leaving the front of the dog crate uncovered.)
In the beginning, sometimes Fred would not want to go in his dog crate. I coaxed Fred into his dog crate by using a Kong filled with diced Natural Balance® Dog Food Roll. Fred really, really likes diced Natural Balance® Dog Food Roll, so he would go into his dog crate to get his stuffed Kong. (The actual name of the dog food roll is Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance® Dog Food Rolls. For those of us old enough to remember, Dick Van Patten was a television actor in the 60's and 70's.)
The stuffed Kong is now a nightly ritual with Fred. Fred goes up into his dog crate and waits while I get ready for bed, knowing that he will get his stuffed Kong just before the lights go out.
Fred in his dog crate, wondering why I am making bright flashes at him.
So ends another post. I talked a little about Fred's crate training and managed to plug my website. Til next time.
Richard www.superiordogcrates.com
When we first got Fred from the animal shelter, we had two cats. Fred had been at the shelter for six months and the shelter people warned us that Fred was not socialized with other animals. Whether Fred was that way when he was picked up as a stray or whether he became that way at the shelter we don't know. When Fred would see another small animal he would get excited and that excitement would turn into aggression. Anyway, we needed to be careful that are two cats did not become targets of Fred's aggression.
During the day, we put up a pet barrier at the top or bottom of the stairs. The cats would have upstairs and Fred would have downstairs. At nighttime or sometimes during the day when my wife, Marsha, had clients at the house, Fred would be put into the master bedroom. Fred would then be right inside the bedroom door and the cats would be right outside the bedroom door. The cats seemed to find pleasure in tormenting Fred through the bedroom door. At night this caused Marsha and I to lose sleep and during the day this disrupted Marsha's sessions with her clients. The solution was to put a dog crate in the master bedroom and to put Fred into the dog crate.
The dog crate was far enough away from the door that the cats lost interest in trying to torment Fred. We used a Midwest Metals Life Stages® Single Door dog crate for Fred. We put a dog bed in the crate and gave Fred some toys (his favorites) when Fred was in the dog crate. Fred did not really play with the toys, but it seems like Fred was aware his favorite toys existed and Fred felt better if the toys were where Fred could get them. Fred was usually content in his dog crate. Fred never cried but occasionally he would bark and/or growl at the cats if he heard them. (Fred has a wire dog crate and it took my wife and I awhile to realize Fred felt more secure if we threw a blanket over the dog crate, leaving the front of the dog crate uncovered.)
In the beginning, sometimes Fred would not want to go in his dog crate. I coaxed Fred into his dog crate by using a Kong filled with diced Natural Balance® Dog Food Roll. Fred really, really likes diced Natural Balance® Dog Food Roll, so he would go into his dog crate to get his stuffed Kong. (The actual name of the dog food roll is Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance® Dog Food Rolls. For those of us old enough to remember, Dick Van Patten was a television actor in the 60's and 70's.)
The stuffed Kong is now a nightly ritual with Fred. Fred goes up into his dog crate and waits while I get ready for bed, knowing that he will get his stuffed Kong just before the lights go out.
Fred in his dog crate, wondering why I am making bright flashes at him.So ends another post. I talked a little about Fred's crate training and managed to plug my website. Til next time.
Richard www.superiordogcrates.com
Monday, June 8, 2009
Yellow Bear Takes Over
And we're off! This is the first post on The Official Superior Dog Crates Blog. Will today's post be about a dog crate, dog kennel, dog carrier, pet carrier, pet bed, flea and tick control, a water bowl, or something else?
How about something else (the shameless product promotion can come later, at least I got some keywords in). Today's post will be about Yellow Bear.
Originally there was just Bear:
We have a German Shepherd named Fred. Bear became Fred's favorite dog toy as soon as Fred saw Bear. Bear is about five inches tall and is a squeeky toy. Fred loved playing fetch with Bear and Fred took Bear upstairs and into his dog crate at night. Fred really, really liked Bear. But that was before Yellow Bear:
When Fred saw Yellow Bear, Yellow Bear became the favorite dog toy. Bear, who is now named Orange Bear. still gets played with, but Yellow Bear is the favorite dog toy and the one Fred wants in his crate at night. Yellow Bear was very overt in taking over the top toy spot.
When playing fetch with dog toys, I now alternate throwing Yellow Bear and Orange Bear,so Fred can run back and forth quite a bit doing his fetches (Fred has to bring a bear back before another bear gets tossed).
So that is the very short story of how Yellow Bear took over the top dog toy spot in our home and the end of today's post.
www.superiordogcrates.com
How about something else (the shameless product promotion can come later, at least I got some keywords in). Today's post will be about Yellow Bear.
Originally there was just Bear:
We have a German Shepherd named Fred. Bear became Fred's favorite dog toy as soon as Fred saw Bear. Bear is about five inches tall and is a squeeky toy. Fred loved playing fetch with Bear and Fred took Bear upstairs and into his dog crate at night. Fred really, really liked Bear. But that was before Yellow Bear:
When Fred saw Yellow Bear, Yellow Bear became the favorite dog toy. Bear, who is now named Orange Bear. still gets played with, but Yellow Bear is the favorite dog toy and the one Fred wants in his crate at night. Yellow Bear was very overt in taking over the top toy spot.
When playing fetch with dog toys, I now alternate throwing Yellow Bear and Orange Bear,so Fred can run back and forth quite a bit doing his fetches (Fred has to bring a bear back before another bear gets tossed).
So that is the very short story of how Yellow Bear took over the top dog toy spot in our home and the end of today's post.
www.superiordogcrates.com
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