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You just came home from the hospital after giving birth to you new bundle of joy. He is only 5 days old. You want to take a shower and get the hospital smell off yourself. You take your infant and place him in the laundry room on a rug and close the door. Your husband comes home and ask you what you where thinking? Why in your right mind would you do that to a baby?

Now why should your puppy be any different?

When it comes to crating a dog it needs to be thought of logically. A young dog is EXACTLY like a young infant. Your young pup is not to be trusted in knowing what is dangerous and what is safe. Your child does not know it is dangerous to roll towards the open stairwell, same as your pup not knowing that the bleach bottle on the floor is not for him to chew. You would not go to work and leave your 2 year old at home to roam, or just locked in a bedroom would you? Why should dogs be treated any different when they have exactly the same possibility of obtaining injury. With children we have the option of daycare, with dogs we unfortunately do not all have the option of doggy daycare to utilize. This is where a crate comes in handy. It not only protects the dog from injury or death, it also protects your house and possessions.

A dog from the age of 1 day to 1 year is at the same brain capacity of a child aged 1 day to 10 years. They are exploring the world and oblivious of dangers around them. A dog the age of 1 year to 3 years is like a teenager. Some can be trusted to stay at home alone, while others cannot because they will have a wild party in your absence. Unlike teenagers we have the option to place our dogs in a kennel when we leave so he cannot engage in inappropriate activities and become hurt in the process.

I never use to crate my dogs. I thought it was cruel and inhumane. I felt bad hearing the constant crying and pawing at the door. The yipping and howling was just to much. I could not do it.

Then came the faithful day my dog ate Borax. Imagine the panic I was in to come home to that mess on the floor, hardened in his paws and on his face. I called poison control and luckily was able to get Kaede to throw most of it up. He did not end up having any lasting or prolonged side effects due to the poison. I was lucky, but things had to change. He was 8 months old and the chewing was not stopping and now his chewing was becoming a danger to himself. I did not know what to do. I had tried locking him in a small room but he still managed to chew his way out.

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