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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]

If you don't understand crate training, then you don't really understand dogs either.  Educate yourself.[/quote]
I understand dogs enough to know that they are not meant to be isolated in a 24in X 36in space for upwards of 20 hours a day indefinitely. My issue is that crates are abused/become a crutch. There are certainly many ways to train a dog and I've been successful without a crate for 40+ years, I don't need one now.  [/quote]

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