Benefits of Getting a Crate for Your Dog

Crates are safe havens for older dogs, useful training equipment for puppies, and lifesavers during emergencies. Most trainers, veterinarians, and breeders recommend training dogs for crates from an early age. Crates can be an essential part of housebreaking puppies, as dogs do not like to soil their sleeping areas. Puppies learn to hold their bladder when they are in a crate, so you will not have to clean the mess. 

There are a lot more benefits to crate training. Below are the 7 most important benefits of getting a crate for your dog.

Dogs in general possess a ‘denning’ instinct and a crate can offer a safe place for your pup when they are feeling tired or stressed and need some quiet time. 

Your family members, especially children, should be taught that when the pup is in the crate, whether by their or your choice, that they should be out of bounds for them and should be left alone.

Crates are perfect for house training. Puppies and dogs do not want to soil their beds, so a right sized crate is very handy to help you to teach them bowel and bladder control.

Getting your puppy resting with peace in the crate when you cannot supervise them is a great thing. Maybe you’re working on the home restoration or cooking dinner where your dog can cause safety problems just by coming underfoot. Getting them away in a safe place will make you worry-free.

It is much safer for both you and the pup, to keep them in a crate during car travel than letting them be free in the car.

If your puppy ever requires staying overnight at the veterinary’s, they would be much less stressed when they are locked up in the cage, if you have crate trained them before.

Have you ever watched those ‘dog shaming’ clips on the internet, where the pet owners come home and find their furniture in a mess? Although funny, they could avoid the disasters by leaving their dog in the crate with a toy or bone to chew on, rather than destroying that designer couch.

In case you ever need to evacuate your house for an emergency or a disaster, having a crate-trained dog will make things smoother for you. If you keep the puppy with you or hand them over to a carer, your puppy will be fine in their own crate. The puppy will be more comfortable with their own toys and blankets with your smell on them, instead of one that is new to the crate and as a result, will feel under stress.

Since dogs are very sociable animals, it is necessary you keep them indoors most of the time, even when you’re sleeping, or outside and cannot play with them. Crates allow you to leave them in the home when you are outside or when you can’t supervise them. If your dog is allowed to spend much of the time outside when you’re not home, chances are they will begin to show behaviour problems such as digging, barking, chewing and fence jumping. These issues can be avoided if you get a crate for them and keep them inside to make them an integral part of your family.