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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would just let her sleep in my room. If you hear her cry take her out. Hearing dogs cry makes my heart break too.[/quote]

+1 Why are you crating this dog? If she has an accident in the room, so be it - you clean it up. Work on housetraining her through actual training - not by keeping her locked in a cage where her heart is breaking every night.

You adopted this dog to be part of your family. Let her be part of your family.

I don't understand the American obsession with crating dogs. I'm American myself - but this is not how my dogs grew up and I just cannot fathom putting a well behaved dog through this. You can crate a dog if you must for her own safety but this should not be the first step in training a dog. It's very cruel.[/quote]
I agree, I hear people crating their dogs for 9-10 hours while they work and another 8-9 hours at night every day and then there is additional crate time when they are 'busy' or want to go out or whatever. The poor things spend more time in the crate than out. I understand the principle, but it was never intended by anyone as a long-term housing arrangement for a dog.  I have never found it necessary or helpful to crate any of my dogs. [/quote]

I grew up with a dog who was never crated, and then as an adult we had a dog who had a soft crate.  My childhood dog slept either on my parents' bed or on the floor near their bed.  We only crated my dog I had as an adult when we first got her and were training her.  We'd leave for a half hour, then hour, then two, then four, and crate her for that time.  Once she was okay that way, we tried out leaving her loose for a half hour, then hour, then two, etc.  This was all over a two week period (she was 2 yrs old and untrained and neglected when we got her).

She had her crate as a cozy place to hang out (soft crate, plus a dog bed, bowl of water, couple of toys).  She could sleep in there at night if she wanted (or on our bed), but also go in if there were workmen in the house, or a big party that was annoying her.  It was very, VERY rare that we would zip her in her crate, and if we did, it was generally for less than an hour.[/quote]

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