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[quote=Anonymous]We crate trained our puppy when we first brought him home from the breeder, and he never really liked it even though we consistently used it as his "bedroom" at nighttime and when we left him alone in the house.  We stopped using the crate at about 8 months because he outgrew the crate and he seemed well behaved.  Four months or so went by with no problems, but then he started "counter surfing" when weleft alone in the house and causing a lot of trouble - he'll chew anything he finds - newspapers, books, crayons, bowls, etc.  Our solution was to put baby gates up so he has to stay in the kitchen, and clearing off all the countertops in that room, but it gets very time consuming to do this every time we are in and out of the house throughout the day.  (I could create a separate post looking for tips to break our dog of the counter surfing habit, but what makes it really tough to break him of the habit is that he only does it when we are not at home so we can't catch him in the act.)  I think we just need to start putting the dog into a crate when we leave him alone in the house, but DH thinks it will be very stressful for the dog because he doesn't think of a crate as a nice place anymore, and he'll just think of it as restricting his movement.  Also, we don't want to make him sleep in the crate at night, as he nicely sleeps on the floor of one of our bedrooms each night with no trouble.  The dog is now about 1 and 1/2 yrs old.  Has anyone crate trained a dog of roughly this age, and if so, do you have any tips? Thanks.[/quote]

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