angelamarie
Posted : 6/20/2006 5:31:14 PM
I am a crate training failure. When my 1.5 year old Misty came to us at 14 weeks, the breeder told us she had been sleeping in a crate in her bedroom, so that's what we did. She cried through the first night, and then started crying through the second night, and I picked her up and put her up against me in the bed and that's where she's slept ever since.
The older one that we adopted came to us crate trained and he loves his crate, goes to it the minute you ask him to, heads straight for it when you tell it's time to go to bed. I would guess the woman who trained him was a bit more stoic than I. By seeing how much he likes his crate and finds it a source of comfort, I think it'd be worth some nights of crying to achieve. So, listen to the advice of the successful crate trainers here, because the end end result is well worth the time you put in now.