tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730801.post2334436551277981398..comments2023-12-31T17:47:27.217-08:00Comments on Taj MuttHall Dog Diary: About Crates vs X-Pens For Dogs, My History Thereof Elfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01827436807468320435noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730801.post-72411214270932684112021-02-14T20:37:58.095-08:002021-02-14T20:37:58.095-08:00Middle seat is definitely safer in a crate than ag...Middle seat is definitely safer in a crate than against the back door. I worry about this with my pups but don't have a good way of doing that with the larger crates.Elfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01827436807468320435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730801.post-9028237933572540722021-02-13T06:00:24.912-08:002021-02-13T06:00:24.912-08:00Yep. Originally the crate was in the back but she ...Yep. Originally the crate was in the back but she couldn't see me so she howled. So then I folded down half the back seat so she could see me from her crate in the way back and that was OK...but then I worried about being hit from behind, so I moved the crate up to the middle of the car and she is much much happier because she is CLOSE to me...but her dad drove her home from Alabama in 2018 (when I flew home to see my doctor) and she got to sit on the back seat in her seat belt thing and he has pictures of her just grinning. Dad is super cool. Mama is...well...you know...mama.Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00824027366993286152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730801.post-63119643484776878392021-02-11T11:40:51.290-08:002021-02-11T11:40:51.290-08:00Mean humans!
I didn't start using crates in th...Mean humans!<br />I didn't start using crates in the car until I got Tika. I had Remington and Jake in very sturdy, well-tested seatbelt harnesses that they had become used to over the previous 4 or 5 years, which is when I got smart about restraining dogs in the car. They were getting up in age and so I didn't want to start trying to get them used to traveling in crates, although by then they were plenty accustomed to staying in crates at trials. (AND Remington LOVED standing up the entire time we were driving, particularly looking for cows-- couldn't take him away from that.) In fact, getting Tika and deciding that dogs would travel in crates was the impetus to get a minivan instead of a fun-to-drive car like my prior ones had been. Because a crate wouldn't have fit into my 4-dog sedan along with 2 other dogs on seatbelts. <br /><br />Getting a dog used to being crated for longer times I think requires that the dog be aware of where you are and then gradually increasing times when they can't see you. At least, that's how it has worked for my previous dogs. Chip and Zorro haven't had nearly enough of that kind of practice. They'll sleep in crates in my bedroom at night, but if I get up and go downstairs, say in the middle of the night, without them, I don't trust them to not claw holes in the mesh of the soft crates. <br /><br />But, yep, like Katie, they'd all rather be in the seats, preferably the front, if they had a choice.<br /><br />Hmmm, this feels like I just wrote another related blog post right here! ;_Elfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01827436807468320435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730801.post-88194850229538315852021-02-11T05:10:53.036-08:002021-02-11T05:10:53.036-08:00I never had a crate until Katie...she was the only...I never had a crate until Katie...she was the only dog I did school with, or trials. And I got it for trials so I could walk the course and leave her somewhere I could see her v.s. the car. I would never leave her in the car! Some people did that. Anyway, now she's happy about it (mostly) and uses it in the car when we travel, though she'd rather just be on the back seat ,or even better on the front seat but mama is mean and says no.Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00824027366993286152noreply@blogger.com