YNP #028: 5 Reasons to Use the Crate When You’re Home.

Your New Puppy: Dog Training and Dog Behavior Lessons to Help You Turn Your New Puppy into a Well-Behaved Dog

Debbie Cilento: Dog Trainer | Dog Behavior Consultant | Owner of Playtime Paws | Belly Rub Specialist

Kids & Family, How To, Pets & Animals, Education

4.8 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The thought of raising two puppies together can create a lot of warm, fuzzy, and fun images. They will keep each other company, entertain each other, exercise each other, and create perfect Instagram moments of snuggling together in their bed.

We go into it aware that it will take more work. Of course, it makes sense, there are two puppies instead of one. What we don’t realize until we get them home is that it doesn’t take twice the work, it takes THREE times the work as raising one puppy.

When a client asks me: “How to do I train two dogs at the same time?” My answer is: “You don’t.” Not until you train each one separately so they understand what you are asking. Then you can bring them together and train them as a pack. That is where three times the work comes in.

AND it doesn’t stop at skills training. There are many activities you will need to do with your puppies both separately and together.

There are also many reasons for this which I talk about within the episode.

Litter-mate syndrome
You need to have a relationship and bond with each dog on their own and with both dogs as a pack.
Prevent separation anxiety from each other by giving them time apart.
Teach them to have the confidence to deal with any environment with and without their sibling there.

This is A LOT of work to train and prevent behavior problems. Enough that most dog trainers recommend that you don’t ever get two dogs from the same litter. It can be done, if you are prepared for it.

If you already have two puppies or if you are set on getting two, I give you some examples on how to tackle all of this work .

If you are still thinking about getting two puppies, I give you the advice I usually give my clients who really want two dogs.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your
0:16.8	host Debbie Salinto. Hello and welcome to episode 28 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today I'm going to give
0:35.4	you five reasons to use your puppies crate when you were home. Now sometimes I
0:41.0	get a lot of resistance to this and it can come out of a sense of guilt like, well, if I'm home, then it's not fair to my puppy if I keep him in the crate or I should be able to keep my dog out of the
0:55.9	crate because I'm home or just not knowing that the crate is a powerful training tool beyond potty training or just somewhere to put them when you leave the house so he doesn't destroy anything.
1:09.0	And once you get past that, once I usually break past any of the reasons why there's resistance to using the crate at home, there's a sense of relief.
1:18.0	You know, having a puppy is hard. highly recommend it because if you're a puppy if you've gotten your puppy to love
1:34.0	their crate if you've given them that really great association with the crate then there's no
1:39.0	reason why you can't use it even if you're home.
1:42.7	Okay, and I'm not talking about leaving them in their crate
1:44.7	all day long, whether you're home or not.
1:46.6	I'm talking about like an hour here or there
1:49.6	during the day or maybe on the weekend
1:52.2	while you're running around the house. So my
1:54.8	first reason it's the perfect way to get your puppy used to the crate at first, you
2:01.2	know to ease them into it. You know we don't want to put them in the crate and then
2:04.4	leave the house for three hours. Like, that is not a good way to get your puppy to love the crate.
2:10.8	Plus, you know, if you listen to episode five I talk about giving them
2:14.4	their favorite things in the crate. If you're going to give them a toy or a bone
2:18.9	to get them to have that good association with the crate?
2:22.6	Well, it's important for you to be there
2:24.3	so you can supervise to make sure nothing bad's gonna happen.
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