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Post by lovemygreys on Jun 20, 2006 10:18:50 GMT -5
I selected the No, don't even have one, although we do but it's packed up somewhere. We have a mud room that could fit the crate with room to spare so for the first couple of weeks after getting Brin & Katzar, Brin was crated and Katz was baby gated (not sure about the terminology but the spelling is correct ) in the mud room with her. After that, we just baby gated them together in the mud room for a couple of weeks and since then, rule of the roost (whether we are here or not! ;D)
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Post by geeracedad on Dec 6, 2006 12:45:24 GMT -5
When we first brought home Georgia (formerly known as BJ Skinny Minnie 12/09/97-02/17/06) to her forever home we fashioned a crate out of our kitchen table against two walls and baby gates.
That lasted , ohhh about a day or so until she discovered the loveseat in our living room and that became her permanent home.
With Grace (formerly known as VS Megan) we just put down a bed in the living room between two wing chairs and with the wall behind her, again fashioning a de-facto enclosed space and that is her area.
So I guess the short answer would be - NO we don't crate our greys but we do try and transition them by having them in enclosed areas.
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Post by dad2paisley on Jan 11, 2007 16:05:18 GMT -5
We only crate our puppy Lincoln and Milky when we are at work. Our other 2 aren't.
We leave the crate doors open when we are home and even though all our guys love the dog begs, the sofa, you will still see them go in the crate to sleep at times.
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houndsrus
Grey Puppy
Lady, Squirt, Tasha & Tabou
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Post by houndsrus on Feb 26, 2007 9:52:37 GMT -5
I responded that i crated but in fact it's half true.....
Lady our afghan and Squirt my oldest greyhound has access to the whole house with Tasha our other grey we tried the muzzle but she hated it and ate a few of them. She also destroyed our leather sofas, so we decided to crate her. She seems to suffer from anxiety when we humans are not home. Tabou our 8 month Saluki is also crated.
However at night, only the puppy is crated and the rest of the gangs sleeps in our bedroom
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Post by rikker on Mar 16, 2007 18:30:01 GMT -5
for now we create our boy -- but I am sure in a few months he will be free with the rest of the bunch
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Post by nic on Jun 18, 2007 11:33:23 GMT -5
Barkely we crated for the first week and then she started to throw a fit when we would crate her and go to leave. She also managed to get out several times. Now the crate is in the entryway area but sits open, and we have just shut off the entryway so she has a little room with nothing much to get into except shoes, which she does not seem interested in....
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Post by vundar on Sept 9, 2007 2:58:10 GMT -5
With Phoebe, she wouldn't leave her crate for more than a minute or two for the first month. We finally coaxed her out and she got used to being around the house. She wont go into a crate now.
Alex was owned by an owner previous to us, so although we had a crate for him as well, he almost never used it to begin with.
Phoebe usually spends the day lounging on my bed. Alex used be the daytime owner of the couch, or of his cushions in the living room. Phoebe still wont go on either, even though he's been gone for 2 months now.
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Post by robin on Sept 9, 2007 19:57:16 GMT -5
We have a crate. It's a good thing it is a fold up type. Haven't used it in years. Our Shadow is secure enough he doesn't seem to need it. We will keep it around for our next pup - another 15 years or so!
Robin, Judy, and, Shadow
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Post by cleversadie on Sept 10, 2007 22:14:21 GMT -5
Our Sadie is such a good girl. I crated her for 3 days at first but it became apparant this was not necessary at all. Where ever we put a nice blanket on any floor anywhere near us that is where she snuggles up and snores and sometimes dreams out loud. What an absolute doll. Linda, Spencer, Jenn and our Clever Sadie (Clever Sue Ann).
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Post by morristahlgreys on Sept 20, 2007 8:13:54 GMT -5
Like Jake and Taylor's mom, I am a firm believer in the proper use of crates. Also for a number of reasons. I've known many dog owners who had real issues with their dogs and more than one couple who could only go out one at a time because someone had to stay home with the dog. Crate training solved most of those issues. Our greys come to us completely crate trained and I think we make a mistake when we "untrain" them. I read the posts and believe that most of the crate issues are caused, not because the dogs are fed up with crates, but because they are in a new situation and some training needs to happen before we can just leave them alone in the house in their crates. Having said this, my dogs have crates in the dog room. Very comfy, by the way. The doors are mostly left open. At night they are sent "to bed" and they go to their crates to sleep. When I am going out, if they are at the door hoping to come along, "kennel up" tells them they are not going. Most of the time they know and head up on their own. The door still open. If I leave Eddie home alone the door is shut because he gets anxious if the girls go without him. There are times when I want them in their crates and to stay there and I shut the door. No one complains. They just sleep. And they get a cookie when they are let out. When I only had 2 dogs, I used crates in the van (safest mode of travel with dogs), but with 3 there isn't room.
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Post by heyjudeposada on Oct 24, 2007 15:12:15 GMT -5
We didn't purchase crates b/c 1. They're expensive and 2. We're in a one bedroom and didn't have the room. Jude and Posada have been great! They've never once messed in the house, although one did throw up but he'd gotten a hold of some leaves on a walk and you can't really wait to go outside to puke, can ya? (We weren't home) The only problem happened when I left the blinds open on the window above the kitchen sink - came home and the blinds were all bent out of shape, the water was running ( !!!) and they'd broken a glass which they thought needed to be carried into the living room. Thankfully they weren't hurt and I've since noticed that Jude just has to look out the window if it's open - he does the same in the bathroom, the window's frosted but if it's open he has to put his paws up on the ledge and sniff what's out there. So, we don't leave them with windows uncovered anymore! AND we make sure to have the TV going. They seem to be just fine - though I wish we had a NannyCam or something. I keep wanting to call them and have to remind myself that they're DOGS! haha.
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jason
Hound Nut
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Post by jason on Nov 4, 2008 15:29:46 GMT -5
Our two were bounce backs so they came home without crates and the need for them. We were such rookies we left them home alone with the run of the house after only having them 24 hours but luckily for us they did not chew or destroy anything. If we ever get a grey right off the track we'll have to change that.
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Post by amyunicorn on Nov 4, 2008 17:24:09 GMT -5
Ava wasn't crated right away (also a bounce), but we ran into issues when she began to push her boundaries (about four or five months in). We crated her to prevent the issues, and now she's allowed to roam free again. Her crate is her bed though, and she sleeps in it, locked, all night. The door remains open all day for her to go in and out as she pleases.
The crate came in REALLY handy this summer whenever we had thunder storms. We crated her during those to prevent injury.
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Post by fasterthanu on Nov 4, 2008 18:32:40 GMT -5
I crate Nero when we are away and over night. Mainly because he will eat anything he can {not really a chewer} but things on the counter, garbage, the kids crayons......
Also he jumps up to look out the windows {he has no choice because the windows are too high for him not to jump} and I worry he might get tangled into something so I keep him where I know he is safe.
If by the weekend he is still accident free then I am going to try him muzzled but lose at night and save the crate only for when we are away. Which is rare.
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Post by Heather (& KC) on Nov 4, 2008 19:01:41 GMT -5
I crated Max when I left the house for work and at night at first. I had an exercise pen in the family room for the first few days as well. He went in there when I was home. I used the exercise pen because he walked into my house and peed/marked right away. Then he couldn't settle. I wasn't able to shut down rooms because it's open concept so I got out the pen. He really liked it and after 2 days I left it open and he still went in. When he stopped going in I took it down.
I had a pillow in the bedroom beside his crate. After a week and a half he curled up on the pillow one night at bed time. He slept in the crate one night a few nights later because I'd added extra blankets and washed them. He was checking it out.
I had an increasingly difficult time getting him into the crate during the day. I'd have to drag him across the house and then he'd plant himself and I'd have to push him in. Around the 3 week point I stopped that struggle and left him out. No issues. I took the crate down a couple weeks ago. He's been home for 7 weeks and it's going really well!!
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