boneyjean
Posted : 6/4/2006 11:10:56 PM
You can get them at all different places for all sorts of different prices. I am not sure where you live, but you might check our host [link
http://www.dog.com]www.dog.com[/link]. I got a similiar one at Walmart for about the same price as dog.com has it.
I have a number of them with the biggest one being under $30 I believe. I have small dogs though as well. The one we use for Izzy is one of the wire ones. We also have a plastic one for when we travel. We conditioned her to it by giving her a puppy kong or any other sort of mind working treat ball when she got in. At first she HATED it, but now as soon as she sees me pull out a certain kind of treat, she automatically runs to get in her crate. I don't even have to bribe her to get in it anymore now. It is a safe place for a dog to be when you are not home or can't watch them. Izzy is a chewer and one of the handful of times I left her out while I was gone (only 10 minutes) she ate the blinds on the front window. I told DH he was lucky she didn't eat through the power cord to the TV!!! There are a lot of people who use crates for their dogs. You might find more info about it in the training section of the forum, as well as about resource guarding.
Also, I was going to add, when Izzy was in her puppy class, we were doing clicker training which requires lots of treats, at first at least. I felt like she was eating too much each day so I started feeding her her dinner instead of treats. So not only was I hand feeding her food to her, she was also working for it. There is something called NILIF which I don't know much about, but it stands for Nothing in life is free and I think a lot of people use it for this type of behavior as well. You could do a search for it or look for it in the training section of the forum and probably find more specific info about it.