I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

Another attempt

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Some more

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Ok, this is the last one.

Day one has been great apart from a vomity car journey.

He has had a bath, met the cat, taken to his crate and had five big wees and one big poo outside with no accidents...so far.

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Saluki or a cross?

Love them

aw puppies!!! So cute!

Saluki

The first night went a bit better than I expected. Pretty intense though, especially for somebody who hasn't had kids or a dog before.

Slept in his crate with three visits to the toilet. Occasional ungodly whining but he soon settles down. Glad I read all of those books!

He looks super cool! Partitioning off the crate like that worked really well for us (in getting our puppy not to do her business in the crate at night). Also those Kong toys are ace - hours of fun!

Dogs - proving that man isn't all bad

My dad's husky has one of those kong toys. I bought it for him 2 years ago and it's still going strong which can't be said for other objects in my dad's house.

I was feeling so cocky this morning but the last hour has been a real eye opener. I have never seen such energy from a playing animal. Nothing was spared. The cat looks mortified. I'm dead on my feet.

We stuff the kong's with food for our dogs.

If we want to distract them for a long time we stuff the kong and freeze it. Our bitch has realised that she can use gravity to shake things out of the kong, so she will take it to the top of the stairs and drop it, so occasionally we have blood and gore splattered down the walls. - the joys of feeding raw

We also make up offal pops - cubes of frozen minced offal that we can quickly stick in a kong for distraction - such as when workmen visit the house or fireworks are going off. See pic of our dog freezer on the previous page the things for the kongs have their own label.

I know nothing about dogs yet (although trying to learn more) so don't take this the wrong way... But what's the deal with the 'crates'? I'm assuming that it is actually not cruel, but it looks an awful lot like a mean dog prison. How long do you keep them in those cages, and what's the reasoning?

Omfg, I have been wondering this for ages but been too embarrassed to ever ask. Grown up around dogs all my life and couldn't imagine any of them being down with the crate.
Intriguing.

The crate becomes a dog's safe space.

Our dogs are never forced into the crate, but they are fed there and if needs be can be lured in with some food. All meals are given to them in the crate. The dogs are never pushed in or pulled out from there.

When tradespeople come to the house they might be anxious about our dogs, so it is easy to get the dogs into the crates, where they are likely to stay calm and the visitor can go about their tasks with no anxiety about a dog jumping or barking at them.

The reason they get bad press is when people fail to train a dog to go into the crate by choice or use it as a punishment/banishment. Also there are people who think they can leave a dog crated for hours unattended, which is animal cruelty.

Our crate experiment was a massive failure.... Loki only went in there to crap. And once he had done it once, there was no stopping him.

Day three of crate training our new puppy today. He heads straight for his crate when he wants a sleep and no accidents yet.

I can see why some people think crate training might be unfair but I think it is far from it if your dog loves his crate.

Agree, stuffed Kongs are great. If you can't make up your own cubes of frozen food, you can buy bags of frozen raw "nuggets" and can stuff three or four of them into a large Kong

Lovely looking pup @Stonehedge

Absolutely this. How you introduce the crate is vital to the dog seeing it positively. I work from home most days and Herbie will spend much of it asleep in the crate, by choice - the door is open. At night, he will go into it initially, but usually ends up sleeping on the landing, where he has another bed outside my bedroom. He can be left in the crate for a long time and, sometimes it's necessary, but not something that I will do as a rule.

I feed Herbie outside (helps when he's chewing chicken carcasses etc.) but, if he gets treats inside, it will be in his crate. The benefit of only giving dogs food in specific places, in my experience, is that they don't beg and bother you for food when you're cooking or eating.

Can't believe I've just found this thread! This is Polgara who some people have seen at RHC this year in Greenwich. Rehomed from Battersea about 6 months ago and starting to try and get her used to being left alone (at the moment manage about 5 minutes before crying etc). Seeing a fair few use crates, anyone else have any tips? Might be a case of it'll get better if she gets used to it but we don't want to do anything detrimental! Thankfully better half works from home so its not essential but need to start.

Princess and the pea

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We trained our dog to sleep in a den which was a metal crate with a bed inside and a rug over the top. He now sleeps in a soft, croft travel crate which is his safe space for when we need to visit friends, family or go camping. Works really well and he sleeps in it all night without issue.

Thanks for info all. A lot of people online seem to recommend caging (because let's be honest that's what the 'crate' is) dogs for hours at a time when you're out, which I couldn't get my head around, but it sounds like that's totally not how you guys are using them.