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Here are 7 tips for crate coaching your puppy:

1. Begin slowly, the crate should become a safe place for your pet to me, any upsetting experiences at the start will become Problems later .

2. When you are house training dogs, preparation is essential: ensure that you have the correct size crate, a chew toy, a favourite blanket and some tiny treats.

3. Put his favorite blanket within the crate, this will help him to feel safe when he's within.

4. Put a gnaw toy inside the crate and close the door, when your dog sees the toy, encourage him to go and get it. He will get excited and almost beg to be let into the crate. Let him in and give him short period to become used to it.
Praise and encourage him in the entire process.

5. Reward him each time he enters the crate and remains there.

6. Throw small treats to the back of the crate, and inspire him to go and get them, praise him for entering the crate and remaining there. If he seems snug and remains for some time, praise him again and give him another treat.

7. When you're house training dogs and using a crate ensure that you are using it while you are at home and as a way to brace the proper “toilet” behaviour and not just as a method to escape the dog

Remember, house training dogs and puppy crate training in particular is basically for your dog’s benefit.
It gives them a feeling of safely and security and gives a place where they are safe from dangerous household eventualities. The crate also provides a strategy of safely carrying your pet in the car, on trips and to the vet or groomers.

House Training Dogs “7 more tips for puppy crate training

Here are 7 more tips for crate coaching your dog

1. Begin gently; this is for your puppies benefit. Dogs are den animals, i.e. They like to have a place that this familiar, comfortable and secure to rest, sleep and spend some time.
The goal is for your dog to come to see his crate as his den and to grow to love being in there.

2. When your dog’s not looking, tie a gnaw toy to the back of the crate! When he sees it, encourage him to go after it. He will have a great time playing “pull” with the toy and at the same time begin to feel comfortable being in the crate. Keep encouraging him while he is playing; remember a very important element of house training dogs is for you to make them understand that what they are doing makes you happy too.

3. Start with brief periods of confinement in the crate.
The younger your puppy the shorter the periods, usually no more that twenty minutes for each month of the dogs age e.g. If the dog is three months old, the confinement period should be less than 1 hour.

4. Puppy crate coaching is reliant on the principle that most dogs don't like to dump in the same place that they eat and sleep, so make sure that your crate is the perfect size, you dog should ready to stand and move around easily though not roam. If the crate is too big your dog could have sufficient space to get rid of which defeats the entire point of housetraining your dog.

5. When you let your dog out of the crate, carry him straight out side to the area you have elected as his toilet space. If nothing happens, place him into his crate and wait 10-15 minutes before repeating the method. When he successfully eliminates in his “special” area make sure to praise and reward him.

6. Allot a specific area as your dog’s lavatory sector.
He will benefit from the structure (dogs like routine) and you'll only have one area to scrub up.

7. You must ignore any grouses from your dog when he's in crate during the training period. If he whines or barks and you release him he will learn to bark and whine as every opportunity. This will make it troublesome for you to inform when there is a real problem.

.Remember, house training dogs and puppy crate training particularly is essentially for your dog’s benefit. It gives them a feeling of safely and security and offers a place where they are safe from threatening household circumstances. The crate also provides a technique of safely carrying your pet in the car, on trips and to the vet or groomers.

Andy is an engineer, part time net marketer and full time dog lover He has got a 7 years old beagle call Mortimer that get’s into more trouble than you would believe and has taught him all he knows about house training dogs

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Now that you have your crate, the other things that I would recommend to get before you start your puppy crate training are some toys, a mat for the bottom of the crate, an odor neutralizer (available at most pet stores) and some puppy treats. So your puppy feels better inside the crate, I would suggest getting some toys to put in there with it. You should never put your puppy in the crate as a punishment because you want it to enjoy being in there.

Be very careful what types of toys you put in the crate because you don’t want your puppy choking on or digesting something that they are not supposed to eat. A lot of the dog toys sold in the stores are fine such as the rubbery ones or bones that are hard pressed and won’t splinter. Don’t utilize stuffed animals, or plastic toys that squeak! These break apart very easily and are choking hazards to your puppy. A way to keep your puppy pre-occupied is to get a puppy toy that is made to place treats on the inside so that your puppy has to figure out how to get them out. This will help your puppy adjust to the new crate and help to keep them quiet in the beginning stages of puppy crate training.

Buying a mat for the bottom of the crate is just to give your puppies a soft place to relax on while inside the crate. You want something that is easy to clean, but not something that your puppy can chew apart.

The odor neutralizer is used to clean up the floor in case your puppy has an accident. The part of your rug or flooring that was used as a bathroom, can be easily cleaned by this. It will discard the scent from the puppies bowel movement so it will not be baited back to the scene of the crime. A lot of household disinfectants have ammonia in the ingredients, which is horrible to use on your puppy’s accident, and could intice your puppy to the same area as before.

You can utilize an array of different stuff as rewards for your pups. Most commercially available treat will work just fine, with organic and all natural being more readily available today I would recommend to go that route. It is healthier for your pup, specially in it’s ample growth stage. You want to start your puppy crate training by tossing a few treats in the cage and giving your puppy a command such as “Crate” or “Kennel” as it goes in after the treats. This will draw your pup into the crate and get excited for it’s prize. When your puppy starts getting excited about being in the crate, it means that it is starting to put the crate and treats together as one.

When you use a command to associate your puppy with going into the crate, your puppy will eventually learn what you want it to do when you say the command. If you use a phrase or word that means go inside the crate to your puppies, then before long they will know what you want them to do. When it’s time for your puppies to go in their crates, you can say the magic word that you have selected and they will enter on their own and wait for some puppy treats.

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When starting the process of puppy crate training you have to remember that your puppy would love to do nothing more in the world than please it’s owner, “YOU”.  You must take the proper steps in the correct order to “help” your puppy understand what you want it to do  (NOT PEE OR POOP ON YOUR CARPET!!!!).   You can’t just take a puppy outside and expect it to magically know what you want it to do.

If you teach yourself the proper training techniques, then your puppy probably will learn more in a smaller time frame than you think. Waiting unitl your puppy relieves itself on your floor and then rubbing the nose in it, is not what I mean.   You cannot and I repeat cannot correct a puppy for going to the bathroom in the house unless you catch it in the act.   Pups don’t have the mental capacity to realize what you are scolding them for that happened in the past, and you wind up confusing them. If you do not see them while they are doing it a punishment just does not have the proper effect.

Selecting A Crate

The first thing you want to do in puppy crate training is select the proper size crate.   The crate should be just big enough for the puppy to stand up and turn around in and not bigger. You might wonder if your puppy needs more space to stretch out so it doesn’t feel so enclosed. Thinking like a human again! It is fine, it’s commonplace that us humans think like that, but your dog doesn’t.

Remember how they don’t like to relieve themselves in their den??? Well if you permit your puppies to have too large of an area, they might use one side for a toilet and the other for resting.  Most of the commercially available puppy crates are sufficient for puppy crate training. I like the plain tan crates (color shouldn’t matter, people just know which ones I am referring to with this reference) with the mesh doors that have a lock on them. They are great for containing dog hair and dirt in the crate and not on your carpet. If you buy a crate that has a divider in it that will allow you to adjust the size, it will save you money by not having to keep purchasing new crate every time your puppy grows.

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This is the next step in puppy crate training.After you do this a few times and your puppies get comfortable with being in and out of the kennel, you should begin to close the door for small sections of time.  Start with staying in the room with your puppy for short periods of time while praising him for being in the crate.After that begin to leave the room and come back to place a goody through a slot in the crate to praise your pup for remaining in the crate.

You will then want to gradually extend your time out of the room to get your puppy used to you not being there.Some dogs will bark or cry when you shut the crate door, you should not be alarmed and try to ignore it.If you happen to open the kennel when your dog is making a bunch of noise, that will definitely teach them to use that technique when they want to get out.

Wait as long as it takes for your puppies o stop making noise and then let them out.Your puppies will learn to like the crate over time and begin to feel comfortable inside and stop the noise.I realize that is it difficult when your small pup is whining to get out, do your best to not give in and you’ll be happy you did.   Puppy whining is definitely one of the harder aspects of puppy crate training.

A lot of pups begin to like their crates very quickly and they will begin to go in by themselves to relax or nap.Remember that your pup’s crate should never be a place you put it after it is bad.  You always want your puppy to love their crate and feel safe and secure inside.Also, you never want to leave your puppies alone in your house for any amount of time.

Most puppies are very mischievous and will quickly start exploring things that you don’t want them to.Not only an issue for the owner of the puppy, but can also be dangerous to the puppy itself.  If you have to do something in the house and can’t keep an eye on your puppy, such as taking a shower, just put the puppy in the crate for a short period of time.

Immediatley take your puppies outside and let them use the bathroom after they have been in the crate for some time.  As soon as your puppy starts to use the bathroom outside, start praising it immediately.You want your dog to realize at this point that this is the action you want it to do.

Here you can use another command such as “Good Potty”, “Good Bathroom”, or “Good Outside”.  Your puppy will soon begin to associate this command with using the bathroom outside.Bring your pup back inside the house when it is done.Don’t forget pups can only hold it so long without going to the potty so do this process a lot………consistency counts when puppy crate training!!!

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If this is your first time potty training a puppy, then you need to remember that things are going to get a bit messy in the near future. To keep your home from becoming like a war zone full of "acid pools" and "landmines," you need to get a stock of these basic things to help you survive the training process:

Odor And Stain Removers
These are some of the first items you need to get while doing the potty training process. Thefact of the matter is, it is inevitable that your puppy will have an accident in and about your home, and it will remember the location unless you quickly scrub away the spots and stains. It is particularly important to get rid of the scent as well, so make sure the cleaner you use can also get rid of smells.

Un-needed newspapers
There are three purposes these can serve. First of all, they can help you gather up feces and/or soak up the urine. Two, they can serve as the bedding of your dog. Thirdly, these will serve as fillers for your dog potty during the potty training process and afterwards. Just make sure not to mix two and three together. Even if the paper slept upon is clean, a dog will be reluctant to excrete on whatever it slept on.

Pretreated potty training pads
If you really want to make the potty training process easier, you can buy these chemically treated pads from your local dog store. The chemicals encourage your puppy or dog to do its business if it sniffs it, and it can also help eliminate the odour of feces and urine. Expect to spend much more money on it than old newspapers, though.

Crate or cage
If you are potty training a puppy, then you need to keep a crate or cage that matches the puppy's size and gives it a little room to move around in. As mentioned before, dogs do not like to excrete on their sleeping area. Keeping your puppy or dog in a crate or cage as you sleep or leave the house makes them hold in it and disciplines them and allows you to pay attention to other matters like sleep and work.

Vigilance And Patience
Even if you have got a cage or crate that you can use, you will still need a lot of time and attention to make sure the potty training process is successful. All the inventions in the world will not help unless a human hand is there to guide the puppy through one of its first lessons in life.

Keep all of these in stock while potty training a puppy and you will be able to quickly and effectively get the job done within a matter of days!

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