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[quote=Anonymous]When we got our puppy we crate trained him, so that meant he spent most of the day crated.  I took him out every 2-3 hours in the beginning.  We went for walks 3 times a day in addition to the pee breaks.  Gradually he was let out of the crate for longer periods of time  and by the time he was 6-7 months old he was uncrated when we were around only crated when we went out or sleeping.  At about 10 months he was uncrated when we went out and crated only for sleeping and by the time he was just over a year the crate was put away.  We can count on 2 hands the number of accidents we had while training him.

The confinement doesn't sound cruel to me, but the lack of exercise is the bigger issue to me.  A puppy needs exercise or it will become destructive and a puppy can be destructive even when he gets lots of exercise.

My lab mix dog now gets an average of 2 long walks a day, one includes a trip to the dog park and a couple of short walks a day and he will be 2 around Thanksgiving.[/quote]

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